A father has appeared in court charged with assaulting three children, one aged three at the time, in a manner likely to cause them unnecessary suffering or injury.
A serial conman who scammed a rugby official out of €7,610 for non-existent Six Nations tickets deserves ‘an honours certificate’ for all of his homework and research.
That is according to the latest victim of fraudster, Patrick Sheedy, 52, who was this week sentenced to nine months in jail for the deception.
In an interview, international ticket co-ordinator with London Irish Amateur Club Peter Whiteside described Sheedy’s scam ‘as something like out of a movie’. Mr Whiteside said: ‘I am angry at myself for being suckered,’ by Sheedy. He said: ‘I didn’t see it coming.’
The 79-year-old native of Dublin – who has had a long career in the oil trading business in London – joins a list of unsuspecting victims of Sheedy, of Cliona Park, Moyross, Limerick, whose criminal life of deception stretches back 32 years to when he first appeared at Limerick District Court on a forgery charge in February 1989 aged 19.
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