Ryan Fitzpatrick jailed for perverting justice and corruption

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Ryan Fitzpatrick was jailed for four years, with the final three months suspended, for perverting the course of justice and corruption at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court; the report was published on 30 April 2024.

He pleaded guilty to trying to destroy a phone in Malahide on 27 May 2020, and to corruptly offering Lauryn McCann a gift to influence her work.

The court heard that investigators recovered information from the phone’s SIM card, which linked it to messages and images taken from the Garda Pulse system and sent by a civilian employee.

Judge Martin Nolan set a headline sentence of six years before imposing four years, with the final three months suspended, after taking account of Fitzpatrick’s guilty plea and other mitigating factors.