A confiscation order involving Co Monaghan land against the haulier convicted of killing 39 Vietnamese migrants has been quashed by the British Court of Appeal.
Hughes had been ordered to pay £182,078 to the families of the deceased migrants out of cash and property seized under the British Proceeds of Crime Act.The Court of Appeal heard that his available assets including money in his bank account and the value of his vehicles amounted to £55,265 The Court of Appeal said Catherine Hughes had sworn an affidavit that her son only had permission to build his house and to reside there. There was no agreement that the land upon which the house was built would belong to him.
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