A 37 year old Ennis man who concealed the body of his dead friend for 19 days from the authorities has escaped jail.
At Ennis Circuit Court Bernard Flaherty of 3 Lifford Lodge admitted that he put Frank Hassett’s family through "three weeks of hell” by not telling them that his body was in his shower unit at his apartment in Clare’s County Town in June-July 2011.
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The 25 year old died in the apartment on June 14th after taking prescription drugs with the 37 year old
Judge Carroll Moran imposed a suspended three year jail term on Mr Flaherty for knowingly making a false statement to Gardaí in relation to Frank Hasset’s whereabouts.
A relative of the dead man uttered an obscenity in frustration at the sentence as he left the courthouse
