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'Reprehensible' Sports Star Pretended to Have Cancer to Steal £350,000
- On Monday at the Criminal Courts of Justice in Dublin, DJ Carey, former Kilkenny hurler , was jailed for five-and-a-half years after pleading guilty in July to 10 counts of falsely claiming to have cancer.
- According to the Criminal Courts of Justice, Carey pleaded guilty to 10 counts of dishonestly inducing others by claiming to have cancer, defrauding 22 people out of almost 400,000.
- Records show Carey received 394,127 euro and 13,000 dollars, repaid 44,203 euro, and Denis O'Brien gave more than 125,000 euro, including accommodation and transport.
- Judge Martin Nolan said Mr Carey exploited good-natured people, that it was hard to know his motives, and his good name will probably never recover amid public odium and ridicule.
- As a context to the sentence, Carey is a five-time All-Ireland winner with nine All-Star awards whose sentencing was adjourned last week after the court was told he was in hospital, while his defence counsel described a stunning fall from grace.
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iPhone cables, handball and fake cancer: Everything DJ Carey did to dupe friends
DJ Carey with what appears to be an iPhone cable up his nose an image he used to get donations DJ Carey went to extraordinary lengths in his campaign to dupe friends and family into handing over hundreds of thousands of euros. He managed to cheat his way to almost 400,000 euros with claims about his health – mainly a battle with cancer – which involved him stuffing a phone charger cable up his nose to look like a medical cord and get people to g…
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