Haulier locked in truck with bomb by IRA avoids jail for failing to remit €160k in VAT

A 75-year-old milk collection haulier from Castlederg, County Tyrone, has been handed a fully suspended five-year sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for failing to remit approximately €160,000 in VAT to the Revenue Commissioners across a four-year period from 2012 to 2015. James Wauchope entered guilty pleas to six sample counts of the offence. Judge Martin Nolan suspended the headline sentence in its…