John Murphy had pleaded not guilty to theft from The Children to Lapland Appeal
A travel agent found guilty of stealing money from a charity which sent terminally ill children to Lapland has lost an appeal against his conviction.
Murphy, of Church Road, in Killiney, had founded the charity in 1987. It raised money from donations to bring terminally ill children on trips to see Santa Claus in Lapland. Murphy also operated United Travel, a travel agent based in Stillorgan, in Dublin, before it went out of business in 2012. The prosecution characterised his position as “the Father Ted defence”. “To quote Dermot Morgan, they’re trying to say ‘the money was simply resting in my account’,” Garrett McCormack, for the DPP, contended.
She said there was no reference to a belief on Murphy’s part that he was entitled to the funds of the charity, during his Garda interviews.Furthermore, she said the trial judge told the jury that, while he did not think evidence of honest belief was in the case, he advised them it was a matter for them to assess as the judges of fact.
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