Court gives man suspended sentence in Northern Bank robbery case

A 63-year-old Cork man who pleaded guilty to money laundering £66,000 sterling stolen as part of the £26m stolen from the Northern Bank in Belfast in December 2004 was given a six-year suspended prison sentence by the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today.

George Hegarty, of Donnybrook Cottages, Douglas, Cork pleaded guilty to possessing £66,000 sterling at his address on February 16, 2005, knowing or believing that the money represented the proceeds of a robbery at the Northern Bank, Belfast on December 20, 2004.