Conman who duped vulnerable Cork man out of more than €4,000 is jailed

A middle-aged man with Asperger’s Syndrome was conned by four men into paying more than €4,000 for work that was never done on his house.

One of the men involved in this scam - John Casey, 48, of Bay 5, St Michael’s halting site, Bypass, Killarney, County Kerry - was jailed for eight months today.