Eamon Dillon

It was on this week as well.

So Michael Gately was back in, like his case was raised the same day as Red Larry's.

Okay.

And they still have to decide.

If you remember, like they had damaged, the house was damaged and he admitted that he had done it.

He'd taken out the staircase and the kitchen was gone, the architraves, the doors and all the rest.

And he said he sold it and got five grand for it.

But then they were... So Judge Alex Owens at the time said, we'll sell the house and then we'll get an expert opinion on whether or not the ultimate value of the house was affected or not.

So we're now going through the process of...

of the criminal access bureau trying to nail down how much damage is done so the court can make a decision on whether Mago Gately owes this money to the court or not or whether he could possibly be jailed no he won't be jailed for contempt sorry because that was ruled against that there wasn't evidence of contempt of court he might have to pay if there's a kind of a discrepancy he might owe this yeah

And it was mentioned that they've come up with the figure, like, I think it was between 75,000 and 100,000 of damage was done.

This is, council said, you know, coming from memory, that they had their own valuer, expert valuer.

And council for Gately are arguing now as well that they also want their own expert valuer to do it.

And they're looking for, they're saying that this is covered by the free legal aid scheme, which it is.

but they're having trouble getting someone who will do the job.

So we're kind of going through another round of, I suppose, problems in getting experts who are going to do it because I think it was mentioned that they had one quote from somebody

But he basically said he wanted to be able to get paid, you know, within a month or two months of doing it.

Well, if he does, yeah, I mean, they can, you know, use the sheriff's office to go in and take his TV or confiscate his car or whatever, however you collect a civil debt.

I mean, it would basically be a civil debt that would be left, you know, outstanding.

Yeah.