One of the victims of Former solicitor Thomas Byrne has said that the Law Society should not be policing their own members.
Vera Mc Grane’ 91 year old mother Kathleen Fahy was a client of Thomas Byrne before she died in 2007. Kathleen was living with Vera when the deeds of the house were handed over to Thomas Byrne for the conveyance of the home.
The house was supposed to have been sold for €380,000. The family then found out that the solicitor’s practice had been shut down and Thomas Byrne had re- mortgaged the house with several banks. The family ended up going to the High Court to get the deeds of their mother’s home back, and eventually sold the house sold the house last December for €126,000. They lost €254,000 and the Law Society has told them that they will not be compensated for that money.
Vera told us that the Law Society could have acted quicker when investigating Thomas Byrne
The Law Society says it did everything in its power to help the victims of fraudster Thomas Byrne.
The struck off solicitor from Mountjoy Square in Dublin was yesterday jailed for 12 years for transferring clients' homes into his name and using them as collateral for 52 million euro in bank loans. It was the largest ever fraud trial in Ireland.
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