Former bank executives open appeals against their convictions

Two former bank executives jailed last year for a €7.2 billion conspiracy to defraud in 2008 have opened appeals against their convictions.

Last July, the former head of capital markets with Anglo Irish Bank John Bowe (pictured) and the former chief executive of Irish Life and Permanent, Denis Casey, were found guilty by a jury at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court of agreeing a scheme to mislead the public about the true health of Anglo.