Further evidence heard in Cork money-laundering trial

The Cork man accused of money-laundering gave an Offaly jeweller supermarket-bags full of sterling totalling £250,000 (€281,000) to put in his safe, but there was no room so he put all the money under his parents’ bed, it was claimed today.

John Douglas, (aged 35), who works in his parents’ jewellers in Tullamore, said: “I put them under the bed upstairs.” Asked whose bed, he replied, “Mammy and Daddy’s.”