Former 2FM DJ Nikki Hayes avoids criminal conviction and jail on money-laundering charges

She is no longer employed in her former field and is engaged in further training, the court heard

Nikki Hayes whose real name is Eimear Black O’Keeffe, of The Way, Hunter’s Run, Clonee, Dublin 15, previously pleaded guilty to possessing €10,000 as the proceeds of crime in a Permanent TSB bank account within the State on November 5, 2020. Photo: Collins Courts

A former radio DJ who had €15,000 lodged into her bank account as part of a money-laundering scam has avoided a criminal conviction and jail time.

Judge Martina Baxter on Monday discharged Nikki Hayes from the indictment, after taking into account a number of mitigating factors, including that she was vulnerable at the time of the offence and has since rehabilitated herself from drugs and alcohol.