A Co Down bookmaker has been fined £4,500 and ordered to pay back £100,000 for illegally opening his shop for Sunday betting.
Newry Crown Court heard that Benedict Gerard Boyle (47), of Doyle's Villas, Camlough, Newry, took in £250,000 over 2½ years when he was illegally opening his shop to punters.
Prosecutor Michael Chambers told the court that police in Newry "received intelligence" in October 2012 that Boyle was opening his bookmakers shop in the town's Francis Street on a Sunday.
Judge Kevin Finnegan fined Boyle £1,500 on each of the three offences and agreed to make a proceeds of crime order in the sum of £100,000.
