2022-10-17
Struck-off financial advisor who defrauded five people out of €209k fails in appeal
Stage: Appeal
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: Tanner was given a five-year sentence at Cork Circuit Court on 2 September 2021 after pleading guilty to seven sample charges of using a false instrument contrary to Section 26 of the Criminal Justice (Theft and Fraud Offences) Act and theft contrary to Section 4 of the same act. "There was a very significant relationship of trust that was sundered again and again by the appellant. He said Tanner had committed premeditated fraud and had continued to commit fresh wrongdoing long after he knew he had no funds available to him. "The sentencing judge was completely within his rights to set the headline sentence at seven years," he said, with the sentence reduced to five years after mitigation. "The breach of trust is more egregious when it is being done by a professional advisor." The appeal was today heard before Mr Justice Edwards, Mr Justice Patrick McCarthy, and Ms Justice Isobel Kennedy.