Galway Bay fm newsroom - A former Galway solicitor who was due to stand trial next year on multiple counts of theft will now be sentenced in March after he admitted a charge of deception.
55 year old Michael Small of Renville, Oranmore, was due to stand trial in January on multiple counts of theft, deception and accounting offences - alleged to have taken place over a two-year period - while he was in practice as a solicitor in Limerick.
Yesterday, he pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court - to a deception inducing a woman to issue loan funds with the intention of making a gain for himself or another
The offence took place at Permanent TSB St Stephen’s Green, Dublin on September 2nd, 2008.
Judge Martina Baxter set a sentence date for March 27, when all evidence will be heard
She remanded Michael Small on continuing bail until that date.
