A 50-year-old man with numerous theft convictions has been jailed again for getting drunk and walking out of a shop wearing a stolen suit, and now a judge has told him: \u201cIt has to come to an end.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The suit was tried on by the drunken man, who also dressed himself in other clothes from Marks & Spencer totalling over \u20ac800 in value.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A sentence of one month in prison has been imposed on the man, who has 142 previous convictions.<\/p>\n
Jerry Foley, of no fixed address, was sentenced by Judge Catherine Ryan at Cork District Court.<\/p>\n
Sergeant John Dineen outlined the extent of the 50-year-old\u2019s previous convictions. Of the 142 counts, 57 of them are for theft and three are for handling stolen property.<\/p>\n
Eddie Burke, solicitor, said the defendant left school at the age of 11 and that four of his brothers had died.<\/p>\n
Mr Burke said alcohol was a serious issue for the accused and he was drunk at the time of the Marks & Spencer theft.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen he comes out of prison, if he gets medication he is fine. If not, he falls back to alcohol. His medication is for depression,\u201d Mr Burke said.<\/p>\n
Mr Foley said at Cork District Court by video link from prison he was not getting his medication when he was in custody.<\/p>\n
Judge Ryan said: \u201cBut you are not getting alcohol either, so it is swings and roundabouts.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Addressing him directly, the judge said of his offending: \u201cIt has to come to an end\u2026 When you get out this time, I hope you are going to take your medication and give up alcohol.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Jerry Foley said: \u201cThat\u2019s the plan.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Judge Ryan then imposed a one-month sentence backdated to May 14 when he went into custody.<\/p>\n
Garda Jonathan O\u2019Brien said the defendant was found in an intoxicated condition at Merchants Quay wearing the suit and other clothing that had been stolen from Marks & Spencer earlier on the same day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 50-year-old man with numerous theft convictions has been jailed again for getting drunk and walking out of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":466954,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2246,79,54,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-466953","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\/466953","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=466953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}