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Fri 05 May 2009Court frees woman jailed over €1,500 credit card debt
AN UNEMPLOYED mother of four with psychiatric problems who was jailed last week for a month over non-payment of a €1,500 credit card debt was freed yesterday by order of the High Court.
The woman’s solicitor, Declan Fahy, told the court in an affidavit she had said she saw an advertisement for credit cards from MBNA Bank while an inpatient in a psychiatric hospital and had applied for a card, claiming to be working in a factory.
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