Seán FitzPatrick acquitted on all charges in Anglo trial

The former chairman of the defunct Anglo Irish Bank has been cleared of all fraud charges over a loans-for-shares scheme months before the bank collapsed in January 2009.

Sean FitzPatrick, 65, from Greystones, Co Wicklow denied providing unlawful financial assistance to a select group of clients to buy shares in the bank in July 2008 as the stock value tanked.