Former Irish hurling star DJ Carey has been jailed after ‘exploiting the good nature of people’ to con almost £350,000.

The 54-year-old ex-Kilkenny player was given a five-and-a-half-year prison sentence today in Dublin following a cancer fraud.

He had previously pleaded guilty to 10 counts of inducing people to give him money after fraudulently claiming he had cancer.

The hurler, described as one of the best in the game, had allegedly sent an image to victims showing him lying on a bed with an iPhone charging cable taped to his nose, pretending it to be an oxygen tube. Judge Martin Nolan said that Carey ‘exploited the good nature of people’ instead of appealing to the weakness of humans, which is what fraudsters tend to do.

He said the people who fell for his fraud were ‘good-natured

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