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CORKILL VERDICT - GUILTY OF FOUR CHARGES

 

JULIE Corkill has been found guilty of four false accounting charges but cleared of two charges of deception.

 

High Bailiff Michael Moyle delivered his verdict this afternoon (Monday) in Douglas, almost three weeks after her trial concluded.

 

Mr Moyle is giving the reasons for his decisions now.

 

But he told Dawn Jones, advocate for the wife of former chief minister Richard Corkill: 'I will make it abundantly clear that your client didn't set out to deliberately defraud the deprtament.'

 

He said Mrs Corkill got caught up in events that were not entirely of her own making.

 

Mrs Corkill said he had some degree of sympathy with the defendant.

 

Mrs Corkill had denied four counts of false accounting and two of obtaining tourism grants by deception.

 

The grants were paid for the development of tourist accommodation at the couple's home Ballacain, Little Mill Road, Onchan.

 

The trial got under way in July, but was halted after just six days when Will Kelly, boss of the building company at the firm which carried out work at Mr and Mrs Corkill's home, suffered a heart attack.

 

Hearings resumed in September. Mr Kelly resumed his evidence via video linked, but that had to be halted after 30 minutes when he suffered an angina attack.

 

Mr Moyle ruled the trial could continue without further involvement from Mr Kelly.

30 October 2006

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