FÁS fraud accused sent for trial

A former FÁS executive accused of defrauding the state training agency of more than €600,000 was served with a book of evidence at the Dublin District Court yesterday.

James Brooke-Tyrell (aged 53), with an address at Church Gate, Church Road, Greystones, Co Wicklow, had been charged in October with 47 counts of deception by manufacturing a false tender, inducing FÁS while in his position as assistant video production manager, at Upper Baggot Street, D4, resulting in cheques being issued into accounts controlled by him, from 2002 to 2008.