Gambler who carried out acts of deception at credit union has sentence halved

The accused duped a householder to pay €2,000 for construction work that was never done.

A gambler who carried out acts of financial deception at a credit union and also duped a householder into paying him over €2,000 for construction work that was never done, has had his twelve-month sentence cut in half.

The appeal by 40-year-old Ian O’Sullivan was before Cork Circuit Appeals Court on four occasions for the accused to gather compensation. But the appellant has been overtaken by events as he recently got an eleven-month sentence for another financial crime.