A former treasurer of a school parents council who misappropriated £120,000 which had been raised to buy a new school was sentenced to two years at Trim Circuit Court yesterday.
Brendan Moore, an accountant, of Beech Park, Laytown, Co Meath, had pleaded guilty to 10 charges of either forging or feloniously converting cheques drawn on the account of St Mary's Diocesan School Parent's Council in Drogheda between September 1993 and July 1994 while he was treasurer of the council.
If no compensation had been paid, Judge Patrick Smith said he would have imposed a four year sentence but with regard to the evidence and a payment of £20,000 made at an earlier court, he imposed a two year sentence on each charge to run concurrently.