PAIR GUILTY OF TRYING TO COLLECT DEAD MAN'S POST OFFICE PENSION..

Nephew and accomplice took uncle's body to try and get €246

- PAUL HEALY

A NEPHEW has admitted to attempting to deceive after trying to collect his dead uncle’s pension at a post office. 

Declan Haughney, 41, and 37-year-old Gareth Coakley both pleaded guilty yesterday to attempted deception in relation to a €246 pension belonging to Peadar Doyle.

Mr Doyle, who was Haughney’s uncle, was discovered to be dead after the pair brought his body to a post office in Carlow on January 21 last year.

A trial was due to commence yesterday but both men pleaded guilty and will be sentenced tomorrow.

The pair are facing up to a maximum sentence of five years in prison for the offence.

Mr Doyle, 66, was discovered dead inside Hosey’s Post Office on the Staplestown Road.

Haughney, of Pollerton Road in Carlow, was accused of attempting to collect Mr Doyle’s weekly pension after he brought his body to the post office. Coakley, of John Sweeney Park in Carlow, who was with Haughney, was accused of the same offence.