A REVENUE officer fabricated evidence in a bid to secure a criminal conviction, an Irish Mail on Sunday investigation reveals. Michael O’Farrell In evidence prepared for court, the officer swore she had personally witnessed a Northern-registered jeep that had not been registered for Vehicle Registration Tax (#VRT). But on some of the dates she claimed to have spotted the €80,000 vehicle driving in the Republic, the Revenue official was actually out of the country on a boozy trip to Benidorm.

Posted by Fred Bassett