Cork woman to be sentenced for deceiving man she met on dating website

Catherine O’Brien 'dishonestly by deception' induced John Blake to pay €20,000 to purchase a horse, €1,100 insurance, and €984 to transport the horse from France to Ireland. Picture: Dan Linehan

Catherine O’Brien will be sentenced on Wednesday after being found guilty of deceiving a man she met on a dating website.

The Buttevant native, with an address at An Ghrianan, Ballinroad, Dungarvan, Co Waterford, was found guilty by a jury in July on three charges relating to the deception of John Blake, a Dublin man she met through the dating website Plenty of Fish.