Pensioner to pay back €40 a week after €140,000 claims fraud

An elderly man who fraudulently claimed almost €140,000 of a dead acquaintance’s pension for 23 years is to pay back An Post €40 a week.

Patrick McLoughlin (aged 66) of Ballyfermot Drive, Ballyfermot, guilty pleaded at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to 10 sample charges including forging pension vouchers and theft at Upper Ballyfermot Post Office on dates between September 21, 1984 and June 1, 2007. He had no previous convictions.