€60k damages case hears Dublin Bus driver 'repeatedly lied'

Solicitors for RSA Insurance and its insured driver said Freddy Diankenda had lied to doctors, to the court and to his solicitor and his counsel about a third accident and personal injuries claim he had kept hidden from everyone. File photo

A Navan-based driver for Dublin Bus, who was held by a judge today to have repeatedly lied under oath in the witness box, has lost a €60,000 rear-ending damages claim and been directed to pay the legal costs and expenses of RSA Insurance which fought the case.

Judge John O’Connor said he would not make any orders with regard to remitting papers in the case to the Director of Public Prosecutions as he felt it was a matter of the insurance companies in such actions to advocate any potential criminal follow-up in such cases.