An engineer who handled part of a £40,000 consignment of computer equipment stolen from the Patents Office has been jailed for three years by Judge Frank O'Donnell.
David Murray (34), with addresses at Fairways Park, Finglas and Belcamp Grove, Darndale, was convicted by a jury at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court last month on five counts of handling the stolen goods between August 2nd and September 2nd, 1996.
The court heard Murray was a production co-ordinator with an engineering company and was employed as a project engineer in the Project Design and Development Centre in UCD when his home at Fairways Park was raided by gardai in September 1996.
Mr Anthony Hunt, prosecuting, said most of the equipment was the property of the Minster for Enterprise and Employment and had been stolen in a burglary of the Patents Office.