{"id":413625,"date":"2026-04-23T15:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T15:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/413625\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T15:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T15:10:08","slug":"woman-who-stupidly-shared-her-revolut-details-at-a-rave-spared-jail-for-money-laundering-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/413625\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman who \u2018stupidly\u2019 shared her Revolut details at a rave spared jail for money laundering \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

A woman who \u201cstupidly\u201d gave her Revolut<\/a> account details to two men who approached her at a rave has avoided a jail term for money laundering.<\/p>\n

Rebecca Williamson (25) told garda\u00ed<\/a> she was intoxicated when approached by the men, who told her they would \u201cthrow me a grand\u201d after asking for her Revolut details.<\/p>\n

Williamson of Templeview Drive, Clarehall, Coolock, Dublin 17, pleaded guilty to money laundering on dates between September 6th and 8th, 2023. She has no previous convictions.<\/p>\n

Passing sentence, judge Martina Baxter at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court said this was a serious offence but one that comes before the courts all too frequently.<\/p>\n

She said Williamson\u2019s role in giving her details was to facilitate a cycle of criminal activity while those higher up the ladder avoided detection.<\/p>\n

In mitigation the court took into account full co-operation, the insight she has gained as well as her genuine remorse.<\/p>\n

Imposing a 12-month sentence, the judge suspended it in full for 12 months. She also directed that \u20ac1,000 be donated to the Make-A-Wish Foundation.<\/p>\n

The judge said custody was not warranted given her progress and circumstances.<\/p>\n

Garda Keith Coleman told the court that garda\u00ed had received confidential information that caused them to start an investigation into Williamson. Garda\u00ed submitted a data protection request to Revolut for her bank account documentation and transactions.<\/p>\n

Coleman said garda\u00ed were able to ascertain that between September 6th and September 8th, 2023, a total of \u20ac13,900 was deposited into her account via single-card top-ups. The cards were added via Apple Pay or Google Pay, with 18 deposits of about \u20ac700.<\/p>\n

The money came in over the three-day period and was immediately transferred to a number of individuals in various amounts. <\/p>\n

Williamson met garda\u00ed and made full admissions. She told them she had been at a rave event and was approached by two men who asked for her Revolut so they could order a premium black Revolut card. She said the men told her they would \u201cthrow me a grand\u201d.<\/p>\n

She told garda\u00ed she had been intoxicated and wasn\u2019t thinking. <\/p>\n

She said she began getting threatening phone calls and feared the worst. She did not tell her family what was going on and a week or two later she received \u20ac1,000 via a friend.<\/p>\n

The court heard she had been at the rave with this friend, who knew the men. <\/p>\n

Patrick Jackson, defending, said this had been an incident on a night out when her wits were not at their sharpest. He said she accepted she had been stupid.<\/p>\n

Her employer provided a letter to the court saying she was reliable, professional and trustworthy, with a strong work ethic. <\/p>\n

Jackson said this offence was \u201ca complete one-off\u201d. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman who \u201cstupidly\u201d gave her Revolut account details to two men who approached her at a rave…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50246,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[8411,61,60,43,8581],"class_list":{"0":"post-413625","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-dublin-district-court","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-revolut"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}