Fraudster to leave Ireland after sentence suspended

A convicted fraudster, described as a "brilliant and bright conman", has been given a six-year suspended sentence by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, after he undertook to voluntarily leave the jurisdiction as soon as it could be arranged.

Judge Frank O’Donnell advised Andrew Jacobs (aged 34), from Nigeria but with addresses at Priory Green and Priory Way in Cellbridge and at Ashtown Road in Castleknock, that if he returns to Ireland "under any identity" within the next six years, he will be sent to prison to serve those six years.