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Jailed ex-Anglo official granted priority hearing date for appeal

Summary

Aoife Maguire, a former Anglo Irish Bank official, was granted a priority hearing date for her appeal against sentence in the Court of Appeal. Maguire, 62, of Kilmainham, Dublin, had previously pleaded not guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to charges of conspiring to delete bank accounts connected to Mr Seán Fitzpatrick from the bank's internal system and conspiring to defraud the Revenue Commissioners in 2003 and 2004. Following a two-month trial, a jury found her guilty, and Judge Patrick McCartan sentenced her to 18 months imprisonment on July 31, 2015. Maguire is specifically appealing against the severity of this sentence, not her conviction. During case management procedures before Mr Justice George Birmingham, her solicitor Michael Hanahoe requested the appeal be heard on the final day of the current legal term. The judge listed the appeal for Monday, December 21. Additionally, Mr Justice Birmingham extended legal aid to Maguire for two barristers for the appeal. Her co-accused, Tiarnan O'Mahoney and Bernard Daly, are also appellants in the matter, though the report notes Maguire is not appealing her conviction unlike some co-accused. The matter is currently at the appeal stage, with the hearing scheduled for the specified date.

Who, what, where, when and why

What: Report matter: Jailed ex-Anglo official granted priority hearing date for appeal. Charges or matters: conspiring to delete bank accounts connected to Mr Seán Fitzpatrick from the bank's internal system and conspiring to defraud the Revenue Commissioners on dates in 2003 and 2004. Procedural stage: appeal

When:

• July 31 2015 Hearing Or Sentence
• Monday December 21 Incident
• 2003 and 2004 Other
• 2015-10-09 Publication

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