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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 couldn't "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 impact of the "mean" theft on the once independent lady who now relies on others, as both "considerable ...