Suspended sentence for IT specialist who defrauded bank

A Bank of Ireland computer specialist who defrauded his employers out of over €40,000 by increasing the overdraft on his girlfriend’s account has received a three-year suspended sentence and 240 hours community service.

Wiktor Wolcaski (aged 29), of Castleknock Rise, Castleknock but originally from Poland, said he needed the money because his girlfriend had an unnamed medical problem which he believed required an operation.