A man (22) who fraudulently obtained banking details from people seeking to pay their Local Property Tax has avoided a jail term for fraud offences.

Ex-Abtran employee Jonathan Gough had pleaded guilty in November to four fraud offences at Abtran, University Technology Park, Curraheen in Cork in May 2013.

Gough with an address at Glyntown, Glanmire in Co. Cork was charged with dishonestly by deception inducing three women and a man to provide their banking details.

The charges alleged that he obtained the details from the four under the pretext that they were making a payment for their local property tax with the intention of making gain for himself.

The judge noted that nobody was at a financial loss and that Mr. Gough had no previous conditions. He was released on a probation bond for a year.