Garda jailed for insurance fraud

A young garda has been jailed for a year at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court today for a €10,000 insurance fraud involving his sports car.

Earlier this year, a jury found Garda Paul Fogarty (aged 28) guilty of defrauding Quinn Direct, but acquitted him of harassing a Meath garage owner and his father after a dispute over crash repairs that had been carried out on Fogarty’s Toyota Celica.