SUSPENDED SENTENCE AND FINE FOR GORT MAN'S FOR OIL PRICE FIXING

Date Published: 03-May-2012

A Gort man charged with preventing, restricting or distorting competition through fixing the price of gas oil and kerosene has received a two year suspended sentence and a fine of 30 thousand euro.

Pat Hegarty with an address at Coole in Gort appeared before Galway Circuit Criminal Court today on day three of his trial.

It took the jury just half an hour to reach a verdict of guilty when they retired at Galway Circuit Criminal Court this afternoon.