Former Anglo employee Aoife Maguire freed after court appeal

A former Anglo Irish Bank worker is now a free woman after her original sentence for conspiring to defraud Revenue was deemed “unnecessarily severe” by the Court of Appeal.

Aoife Maguire of Rothe Abbey, South Circular Road, Kilmainham in Dublin has been in jail since a jury convicted her in July.

The court heard that the former assistant manager told Anglo’s IT department to delete several accounts connected to former chief executive Sean Fitzpatrick.

She was jailed for 18 months in August.

Today, the Court of Appeal decided her original sentence was “unnecessarily severe” and felt some of it should have been suspended.

The 62-year-old was handed a new sentence of nine months in prison, but the four months not yet served were suspended.