Visa 'bribe' trial enters final stages

The concluding stages have been reached in the trial of a former Garda National Immigration Bureau employee who allegedly took bribes for issuing fraudulent visas to Chinese students.

John Kennedy (aged 69), Willow Crest, Trees Avenue, Mount Merrion, Co Dublin has pleaded not guilty in Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to receiving bribes as well as a bottle of wine and a meal voucher between December 2002 and January 2003 in return for issuing fraudulent visas to Chinese students.