A drug dealer\u2019s daughter has failed in an attempt to appeal a High Court finding that some \u20ac100,000 in renovations to her home was funded with the proceeds of crime.<\/p>\n
Stacey Calvert is the daughter of Dermot Calvert, who the Criminal Assets Bureau (Cab) has described as a career criminal. He has 91 convictions, mostly for road-traffic offences but four of which relate to the sale and supply of drugs.<\/p>\n
In January 2025, Dermot Calvert, along with his partner Martina Harty and Stacey Calvert, were found by the High Court to have individually or together controlled proceeds of crime funds used to renovate a house at Singland Crescent, Garryowen, Limerick, and for a former shop premises in Garryowen, a VW Passat car and cash seized from the house.<\/p>\n
The court heard Stacey Calvert contributed \u20ac14,000 towards Singland Crescent, where she lives with her two children who have complex medical needs. The house was bought for \u20ac17,250 in 2014 and some \u20ac100,000 was later spent on renovating it, which the High Court said came from the crime proceeds of her father. <\/p>\n
Dermot Calvert, who is in his 50s and is a father of 15 from his first marriage, lived in a granny flat attached to the house along with Harty. Singland Crescent was estimated in 2024\/25 to be worth \u20ac170,000.<\/p>\n
Under proceeds of crime legislation, the house can eventually be sold by Cab following a number of stages in the legal process, including a finding that it was funded or part funded from crime proceeds.<\/p>\n
In its decision last year, the High Court permitted Stacey Calvert and her children, because of the special circumstances of the case, to continue to live rent free at Singland Crescent for seven years. <\/p>\n
This was in recognition of the fact that she had contributed \u20ac14,000 of her own money to the purchase of the house and that when it is sold, she would be entitled to a 20 per cent equitable lien on the proceeds, the court said. <\/p>\n
Dermot Calvert and Harty brought an appeal against the High Court proceeds of crime finding. In July 2025, the Court of Appeal dismissed the appeal and expressly upheld the High Court finding.<\/p>\n
Stacey Calvert, who is in her 30s, had not brought her own appeal because the appeal lodged by her father and Harty initially related to all of the seized property. However, the couple ultimately dropped the challenge in relation to Singland Crescent. <\/p>\n
Stacey Calvert then wanted to appeal the decision in relation to her home. However, she had missed the deadline, or was \u201cout of time\u201d, for doing so and needed to apply to the appeal court for an extension of time to do so. <\/p>\n
She contended that her appeal was materially different to and relates to different property than that the subject of the previous appeal. <\/p>\n
In a judgment, published on Tuesday, the appeal court refused to grant her an extension of time.<\/p>\n
Judge Nuala Butler, on behalf of the three-judge appeal court, said, among other things, she had not provided any credible or coherent explanation for her delay of more than a year in seeking to bring the appeal. She had also not advanced any arguable grounds of appeal.<\/p>\n
In all the circumstances of this case, the judge was satisfied this was not an appropriate case to exercise the court\u2019s jurisdiction in favour of the grant of an extension of time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A drug dealer\u2019s daughter has failed in an attempt to appeal a High Court finding that some \u20ac100,000…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8453,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-549875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549875","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=549875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}