PRISON SENTENCE FOR STEALING PENSIONER'S PURSE IN THE CITY

Date Published: 07-Apr-2009

A Headford resident who stole a pensioner’s purse when she left it behind her on a shop counter in the city, has been given a suspended four-month sentence and a €300 fine 38 year old Polish man Piotr Blok, of Knocklahard, Headford, pleaded guilty to stealing the purse which contained €1,000, from the 75-year-old woman at the N17 Store, in Terryland on August 14 last.