A Roscommon woman has been spared a jail sentence for using forged documents to try to persuade the High Court to allow her stay in a house which was being seized because of her husband’s debts.
Annette Daire (39), of Main Street, Castlerea, presented fraudulent bills addressed to the property to convince the court that it was the family home in the hope they would allow her to remain living there under the Family Home Protection Act.
Judge Martin Nolan said it was an “ill- advised and ill-thought-out” fraud. He believed Daire was at a desperate moment in her life and not thinking straight.
He imposed a four-year sentence which he suspended in full after noting Daire was a “good honest women who succumbed to temptation”.