Clive Keogh gets suspended sentence for fake travel passes

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Clive Keogh received a fully suspended nine-month prison sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court on 10 November 2015. Judge Catherine Murphy imposed the sentence. The proceedings were reported on 10 November 2015.

The judge also ordered Keogh to complete 240 hours of community service and engage with the Probation Service for two years. The sentence was suspended on strict conditions, including that he not come to Garda attention during those two years.

Keogh pleaded guilty to one count of possessing a false travel pass with the intention of inducing another to accept it as genuine. He also admitted possessing four other free travel passes on a USB key, including one in the name of Brad Pitt.

He was caught after a garda stopped to chat to him on Parnell Street on 7 November 2013. The report said a card in his own name appeared fake and that he handed over the USB key after his arrest. Keogh told gardaí he had made the passes in an internet shop and made his own pass to visit his son in Navan. He also said he had made between five and 10 cards for other people.

The case had been adjourned after evidence was heard in July 2015. Garda Donal Donoghue agreed with the defence that Keogh had co-operated fully with the investigation.

At sentencing, Judge Murphy expressed disappointment that Keogh had since come to Garda attention and was facing a shoplifting charge. However, she accepted his progress since July after hearing that he was on a training course and had secured accommodation.