McGeever in custody for wasting Garda time

CHARGED?Swinford man Kevin McGeever.

McGeever in custody for wasting Garda time


Edwin McGreal

Swinford native Kevin McGeever has been remanded in custody for two weeks after failing to come up with money for bail.
The 68-year-old one-time estate agent made international news earlier this year after what he claimed was a kidnapping.
McGeever was found in a disheveled state on a roadside in Co Leitrim in January and claimed to have been held by a kidnapping gang for eight months – yet no missing persons appeal was ever made.
Mr McGeever was subsequently arrested on suspicion of wasting Garda time and was further charged to that effect. He appeared before Strokestown District Court on Wednesday last on two charges of wasting Garda time on dates between January 29 and February 28 this year. There was consent to bail at his own bond of €2,500 and an independent surety of €10,000, a minimum of €3,000 of which had to be cash.
However, he was remanded in custody when that money was not available and when he appeared before Harristown District Court, Castlerea, on Friday last defence solicitor Joan Devine told Judge Geoffrey Browne that her client was not in a position to come up with the money.
McGeever was remanded in custody with consent to bail to appear before Harristown on Friday, August 9.
In his only media interview, McGeever told The Sunday Times last March that he wants ‘the whole truth to come out’ and claimed ‘the media have made a proper idiot out of me’.