'Squiggles' save journalist in 'forgery' trial

A journalist has walked free from Dublin Circuit Criminal Court after Judge Desmond Hogan directed the jury to find her not guilty of forging pharmaceutical prescriptions.

Ms Naomi McElroy (aged 27) of Grove Park Drive, Glasnevin, Dublin, a Sunday Mirror journalist, had pleaded not guilty to five charges of forging prescriptions and five of presenting them to north Dublin pharmacies on July 29, 2004.