Declan Haughney News Today

A woman wheeled her dead “uncle” into a bank in Brazil in a bid to take out a loan in a bizarre echo of the infamous Carlow Post office case.

A man who dragged his uncle’s lifeless body into a post office in Carlow now faces further jail time for stealing an €8 earring.

A man who dragged his uncle’s lifeless body into a post office in Carlow now faces further jail time for stealing an €8 earring.

Declan Haughney, 41, dragged his uncle to the post office in a grim attempt to collect his £211 pension before the man was pronounced dead at the scene in a 'macabre spectacle'

The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) is considering appealing the jail sentences handed to two men who dragged the lifeless body of another man to a post office in an attempt to claim his pension.

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