Dublin couple given community service for using 'creative accountant' to forge documents in mortgage application

A Dublin couple who used forged documents to apply for a mortgage because they believed they would never qualify otherwise for a housing loan one have been spared a jail sentence.

Judge Sinéad Ní Chúlacháin said Clare Ellis (aged 34) and Gareth Boyle (aged 32) did not realise they were engaging in criminal activity in what was “not a highly sophisticated” effort to deceive a bank.