JURY FINDS TUAM WASTE COMPANY NOT GUILTY IN COMPETITION CASE

Date Published: 02-Jul-2009

A Tuam waste company, 2 other waste companies and 5 individuals charged with sharing markets and customers in 2005 have been found not guilty.

They were charged under the Competition Act relating to a tender for waste disposal for Mayo County Council in 2005.

Paul Gleeson and his company Wers Waste, along with Mayo businesses Bourke Waste and McGrath Industrial Waste, Stanley Bourke, Paddy McGrath, Declan McGrath, and Paraic Hughes had denied the charges.

A jury at the trial at the Central Criminal Court sitting in Galway has just returned a verdict of not guilty on all counts in the past few minutes.