2024-01-24
Haulier locked in truck with bomb by IRA avoids jail for failing to remit €160k in VAT
Stage: Sentence
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: Photo: Collins) A milk collection haulier who failed to declare over €160,000 in VAT to the Revenue Commissioners a decade ago has been given a fully suspended sentence on the basis that "life has punished him enough". Judge Nolan said the "extenuating circumstances" of Wauchope's past horrendous experiences were "over and above what most people have had to endure". "Life has punished you enough," said the judge, handing Wauchope a three and a half years fully suspended sentence, during which period he must be of good behaviour.