Laura Levers News Today

A north Down company director today admitted two assaults, with a judge branding his behaviour “bizarre, to say the least”.

A self-confessed thief who once ploughed into a family in a hijacked taxi killing a seven-year-old boy, was sentenced to four years on Tuesday for stealing the life savings of a vulnerable elderly friend. Judge Geoffrey Miller QC told 47-year-old Stephen Vincent Sweeney, while he claimed he couldnt "help himself", his motive was "nothing less than pure greed" and there was "no prospect" of the pensioner seeing a penny of her £40,000 saving. The Downpatrick Crown Court judge described the impac...