A former worker at Anglo Irish Bank has walked free from prison following a successful appeal against her sentence for conspiring to defraud Revenue.

Aoife Maguire of Rothe Abbey, South Circular Road, Kilmainham in Dublin was convicted along with two more senior officers of the former bank

Arising from an audit in 2003, the former Assistant Manager had been found guilty of asking AngloÂ’'s IT department to delete several accounts from its system, and for ensuing one account linked to a senior figure at the bank wasnÂ’'t handed over to Revenue.

She was sentenced to 18 months in prison but The Court of Appeal agreed her sentence was “unnecessarily severe.

Our Courts Correspondent Frank Greaney reports: