2018-07-20
Grandparents spared jail for €72k social welfare fraud
Stage: Sentence
Outcome: Annette McCluskey has received a three-year suspended sentence while her husband Edward was handed a two-year suspended sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court. Judge O'Connor said the headline sentence for Annette McCluskey was five years and for Edward McCluskey three years, but that she had to consider the mitigating factors in making her decision. "This was not a victimless crime," said Judge O'Connor. "There were multiple counts over a considerable period of time.