Ex-garda sentenced in insurance fraud conspiracy case

A former Roscommon garda has received a three-year suspended sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for his role in an insurance fraud conspiracy arising out of a false traffic accident.

Desmond McGonigle (aged 59) of Knockvicar, Boyle, Co Roscommon, now retired from An Garda Síochána, pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit fraud by pretending that an accident occurred in Drumsna, Co Leitrim on February 23, 1996.