A pensioner who used his dead brother's identity to claim more than €93,000 in benefits has been jailed for two and a half years.
Aidan Byrne had pleaded guilty to a range of fraud charges at Donegal Circuit Court. The 75-year-old had conned the social welfare system by using the identity of his dead brother Anthony who died tragically in a drowning accident in England in 1972.
Judge John Aylmer said the offences were "very much pre-meditated" and extended over a "significant period of time."
