Alan Yip sentenced for false birth registrations

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Alan Yip was sentenced to three years for knowingly giving false birth information to registrars, reported on 1 November 2022. The registrations took place in Drogheda, Tullamore and Dublin.

He pleaded guilty to six counts relating to the births of six babies. Additional charges of applying for passports using false documentation were taken into account.

Yip’s five co-accused mothers and one co-accused father each pleaded guilty to an offence concerning their own child and received a two-year sentence suspended in full.