Defence closing address at money-laundering trial

The defence lawyer of a Cork man being tried on money-laundering charges today asked if the prosecution was suggesting that businessman Phil Flynn was a "notorious scumbag", and that by association the defendant was a money-launderer.

Ciarán O’Loughlin, senior counsel, posed this strongly-worded question at the end of the defence’s closing address to the jury at Cork Circuit Criminal Court where Ted Cunningham is on trial.