Judge confiscates money found in car door

A man who claimed that €20,000 found in a garda search resulted from the sale of a car, has had the money confiscated and forfeited to the State as the proceeds of crime.

Michael Cronin (aged 35), of Belclare Lawns, Ballymun told gardaí he had just sold his car to a named car dealer in Swords but the firm’s owner denied any such transaction had taken place.