A previous property engineer who faked his own seizing has been given a two-year suspended jail sentence.
Kevin McGeever, 71, of Clontarf in Dublin, was at Galway Circuit Criminal Court on Tuesday and conceded squandering police time, RTÉ reports.
He told gardaí (Irish police) in 2013 he had been snatched and held in bondage for eight months.
McGeever was found on a roadside in County Leitrim in a tousled state in January that year.
He later told gardaí he had been seized at gunpoint and held in a steel holder, conceivably underground, by his captors.
His announcements incited a six-week examination, costing €86,500 (£68,000) and including more than 3,000 hours of police time.
'Unfathomably moronic'
The court heard McGeever owed a lot of cash to financial specialists taking after the monetary accident.
He trusted the case of abducting would get them off his back.
McGeever's protection counsel John Jordan said his customer had accomplished something "unimaginably imbecilic" and lamented his activities.
A judge said the charge was of impressive gravity, yet in light of the respondent's age and the weight as of now conveyed by citizens as an aftereffect of his wrongdoing, he suspended the sentence.
At the point when inquired as to whether he was happy the matter was determined, McGeever said: "Make sense of that yourself".
Kevin McGeever, 71, of Clontarf in Dublin, was at Galway Circuit Criminal Court on Tuesday and conceded squandering police time, RTÉ reports.
He told gardaí (Irish police) in 2013 he had been snatched and held in bondage for eight months.
McGeever was found on a roadside in County Leitrim in a tousled state in January that year.
He later told gardaí he had been seized at gunpoint and held in a steel holder, conceivably underground, by his captors.
His announcements incited a six-week examination, costing €86,500 (£68,000) and including more than 3,000 hours of police time.
'Unfathomably moronic'
The court heard McGeever owed a lot of cash to financial specialists taking after the monetary accident.
He trusted the case of abducting would get them off his back.
McGeever's protection counsel John Jordan said his customer had accomplished something "unimaginably imbecilic" and lamented his activities.
A judge said the charge was of impressive gravity, yet in light of the respondent's age and the weight as of now conveyed by citizens as an aftereffect of his wrongdoing, he suspended the sentence.
At the point when inquired as to whether he was happy the matter was determined, McGeever said: "Make sense of that yourself".
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