High Court gives James ‘Mago’ Gately and partner four months to leave Dublin home

James ‘Mago’ Gately and his partner have been given four months to vacate their family home, which the High Court has found to “overwhelmingly” derive from proceeds of crime.

Charlene Lam asked the High Court on Friday to let her and her three children remain in their house in Coolock, north Dublin, for another two years.

Her counsel, David Perry, requested “forbearance” from the judge and submitted a house move would be disruptive to her eldest son’s studies ahead of his Leaving Certificate exams next June. He said she is working to get her affairs into line.

The Criminal Assets Bureau (Cab) has alleged Mr Gately has been linked to armed robberies, gangland murders and drug dealing but has not been convicted of serious offences.

Mr Justice Alexander Owens last June found, on the balance of probabilities, that Mr Gately and Ms Lam’s “exotic” lifestyles were subsidised with crime proceeds, while the “overwhelming” proportion of their equity in their home at…