Sean Keyes sentenced for theft with suspended term

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Sean Keyes was sentenced for theft at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court on 11 October 2022, receiving a two-and-a-half-year sentence suspended on conditions.

He pleaded guilty to six counts of theft and six counts of producing a false instrument concerning Paddy Power stores in Dublin between October 2019 and March 2020. The report said he stole €67,554 after fraudulently adjusting gambling-machine bets, but his defence said he immediately gambled the money back with Paddy Power, leaving the company without a financial loss. Judge Martin Nolan described the case as unique because the company did not lose money.

The proceedings were reported on 11 October 2022.