Cork fraudster who supplied court with falsified documents is jailed

Emma Fehily was initially given a fully-suspended sentence, though this was appealed by the DPP

Emma Fehily, of Kilmoney, Carrigaline, Co Cork, at the Criminal Courts of Justice on Parkgate St in Dublin. Picture: Collins Courts

A serial fraudster who handed in fake references to a judge during her sentencing on theft offences also forged two more documents that have only now been discovered, the Court of Appeal heard yesterday.

Emma Fehily was initially given a fully suspended sentence because the sentencing judge was unhappy with the “complete and utter joke” of her early release on a previous theft charge. The DPP had appealed the one-year fully suspended sentence imposed on Fehily, aged 37, on the grounds of undue leniency. Fehily was yesterday sentenced to three and half years’ imprisonment with 18 months suspended for two years on two counts of forgery and two counts of attempting to pervert the course of justice.