A middle-aged Cork man\u2019s fate is in his own hands, a sentencing judge told him, as she urged him to co-operate with the probation service and address his addiction difficulties if he wanted to avoid jail.<\/p>\n
Anthony Morey, aged 56, of Coppinger\u2019s Acre, Bantry Park Rd, Fair Hill, who had numerous previous theft convictions, pleaded guilty to more theft-related offences at Cork District Court.<\/p>\n
Solicitor Frank Buttimer said: \u201cHe is a 56-year-old man living in supported accommodation for a number of years. Clearly, he has mental health difficulties \u2014 whether from his youth, or from addiction difficulties, or a combination of both, I cannot say.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe has had in-patient and out-patient care for mental health issues. The probation report seems to say that if addiction is addressed, everything else should follow. He would willingly co-operate with probation. They do regard him as high risk of re-offending, and I would not challenge that. But this will be addressed by addressing his addiction difficulties.\u201d<\/p>\n
Judge Catherine Ryan said: \u201cA man with his issues in a prison setting would be very difficult.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mr Buttimer asked for an adjournment of four to eight weeks for him to address compensation and to see how he gets on.<\/p>\n
Judge Ryan agreed that this might help, adding that, if the case was finalised now, it might be by way of a custodial sentence because he had so many previous convictions for theft.<\/p>\n
\u201cI will put it back until July 22. It is in your hands. If there is progress between now and then, if you co-operate with probation, there may be some scope for the court to do something other than custody.\u201d<\/p>\n
On February 19, at Brown Thomas, Morey selected two garments valued at over \u20ac400, and placed them in a backpack he was carrying.<\/p>\n
He was approached by security staff and later by garda\u00ed, who were called to the scene.<\/p>\n
Morey handed over a pair of pliers which he was using to remove security tags from property.<\/p>\n
One of the items of clothing had the security tag removed and the item was damaged and could not be sold.<\/p>\n
On February 14, he took a \u20ac132 bottle of YSL perfume from the shelf at Brown Thomas.<\/p>\n
On October 8, 2025, he stole two sets of knives, valued at \u20ac160, at Homesense on Grand Parade, Cork.<\/p>\n
He also stole \u20ac100 worth of Nike clothing from Lifestyle Sports in their nearby on the same date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A middle-aged Cork man\u2019s fate is in his own hands, a sentencing judge told him, as she urged…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463857,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2246,79,54,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-463856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-cork-court","tag-cork-news","tag-courts","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463856","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=463856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}