Four year suspended sentence for Irish gambling addict

A man has been given a four year suspended sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court after stealing more than  €78.000 from his employer to fund his gambling addiction. Peter Dillon who worked for insurance company Cornmarket Group Financial Services for around 7 years systematically took cash from customers as payments for car or home insurance but never passed the money on to the company. To complete the swindle he changed documents to indicate that payment had been made by credit card or other payment methods. In total there were 132 cases in a little over 8 months before he eventually was found out. In handing down the suspended sentence, Judge Katherine Delahunt took into account the fact that he had admitted the offences to the company and had handed himself in to police. He had also repaid some €20.000 and had made arrangements to repay the remaining amount as well as attending gamblers anonymous to cure his problem. Mr Dillon who has a seven year old daughter who stays with him two nights a week seems to have been a lucky man who could have got into worse trouble has he not recognised his problem. As it is he has found another job and as long as he can control his gambling he will get away with 240 hours of community service instead of a four year jail sentence. If you are worried about your own online casino gambling or that of a friend, we urge to take action.