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Ann Mooney Updated: 22 Apr 2021, 19:55 A GETAWAY driver for a burglary gang that brought “terror” as they preyed on elderly and vulnerable people was jailed today for 12 years. John Faulkner, of Adelaide Place, St Luke’s, Cork city, claimed he was dropping off his pals to visit friends, but gardai testified that the men who exited his car tried to break into the rural home of a couple in their 80s near Charleville, north Co Cork. 2 Judge Sean O’Donnabhain said people like Faulkner had forced pensioners into lockdown long before the pandemic struck 2 Getaway driver Faulkner appeared before the Circuit Criminal Court in Cork this weekCredit: Google Streetview ....
Criminals who burgled elderly couple’s home during Mass lose their appeals Reporter: ); ); TWO burglars, whose crime was likened to coronavirus, have lost their appeals against sentence for targeting the home of a couple in their late 80s, while they were out attending Mass. Armed gardai had caught the criminals red-handed in the house after an intelligence-led investigation, which resulted in both receiving seven-year sentences. Niall Fitzpatrick, 53, of Corrin Close, The Glen, Cork City and Jerry O’Leary, 62, of Brandon Crescent, Dillons Cross, also in the city, had pleaded guilty at Cork Circuit Criminal Court to the burglary at Kilberehert, Freemount, Charleville on October 19, last year. ....
Two burglars, whose crime was likened to coronavirus, have lost their appeals against sentence for targeting the home of a couple in their late 80s, while they were out attending Mass. Armed gardai had caught the Cork City criminals red-handed in the house after an intelligence-led investigation, which resulted in both receiving seven-year sentences. Niall Fitzpatrick (53) of Corrin Close, The Glen, Cork City and Jerry O’Leary (62) of Brandon Crescent, Dillons Cross, also in the city, had pleaded guilty at Cork Circuit Criminal Court to the burglary at Kilberehert, Freemount, Charleville on October 19 last year. The court heard that the two criminals and another man had hired cars, changed drivers, brought changes of clothes, hidden in woods and staked out their target over two days. It was described as a carefully planned and calculated crime. ....