Former car salesman who gave customer 'runaround' in sale of insurance write-off avoids jail

A former salesman has been spared jail for selling a “perfectly fine car” which turned out to have been an insurance write-off after it was severely damaged in a crash.

Father of two Mark Healy, 36, of Bolbrook Drive, Tallaght, Dublin, gave the “runaround” to a customer who had bought the ‘09-reg Peugeot 407 for as a family car.