Fraudster has jail term extended

A convicted fraudster who was jailed for four year for defrauding €2.3m through bogus pension schemes commission has been given an additional two years for further frauds in which he pretended to be his brother.

Noel Fitzpatrick, a 43-year-old insurance agent, was given the additional two years by Judge Katherine Delahunt for defrauding four banks of €84,000, dishonestly getting a passport and stealing documents which were in his brother’s name and which he used to commit the other crimes.