{"id":372795,"date":"2026-03-30T10:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T10:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/372795\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T10:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T10:16:09","slug":"dublin-armed-robber-reveals-secret-life-and-remorse-after-20-years-on-the-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/372795\/","title":{"rendered":"Dublin armed robber reveals secret life and remorse after 20 years on the run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Dublin man who carried out 13 hotel robberies, fled to UK where he broke into the film business, had six kids and became school governor <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Darren White who pleaded guilty to 13 counts of robbery at Dublin hotels back in 2005 and 1 count of robbery at a Londis shop in 2006\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/26face45-818f-4645-a868-c38fc4eb704e.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Darren White who pleaded guilty to 13 counts of robbery at Dublin hotels back in 2005 and 1 count of robbery at a Londis shop in 2006<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A hotel robber who carried out robberies at 13 different establishments before going on the run for almost 20 years said he should have handed himself in years ago but it got \u201charder and harder\u201d after he started a family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Dubliner Darren White (49) told the Crime World that he knows he got \u201ca huge, huge, break\u201d when he was handed a 10-year suspended sentence at Dublin Circuit Court this week, after Judge Martina Baxter cited the breadth of his rehabilitation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dublin man who carried out 13 hotel robberies, fled to UK where he broke into the film business,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,898,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-372795","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-latest-news-ticker","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}