'Self serving' builder must complete sale of family home

A builder described by a judge as "a poor and self-serving historian with little consideration for the effects on others of his story telling" has been ordered by the High Court to complete the sale of his family home.

Mr Justice Tony O'Connor said he did not need to consider whether Gavin Crowley "committed perjury, is delusional or suffers from memory alteration due to strained circumstances". The court only needed to be satisfied to make its decision on the relevant standard of proof which was the balance of probabilities, he said.