A 39-year-old woman tried on a diamond ring in a Cork jewellers then returned a fake version of the ring, and left the store with the real one worth \u20ac3,650.<\/p>\n
At Cork Circuit Criminal Court, Margaret Foley of Cark Simon Community was sentenced to a year in jail for the theft.<\/p>\n
Judge Sin\u00e9ad Behan said: \u201cThis was a planned operation. It was not just that she took the ring, she tried to con the unfortunate employee.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The judge imposed a sentence of two years and suspended one year of that. The sentence was backdated to February when the accused went into custody.<\/p>\n
Garda Ben McInerney testified that on February 18 the accused and another woman went into Michel\u2019s Jewellers on Patrick St and asked to try on a diamond ring to the value of \u20ac3,650. Margaret Foley tried on the diamond ring.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe placed the ring on her finger. At this point she asked about a ring in a separate display. When the member of staff was doing this she took the ring off her finger and placed another ring on her finger.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis was the ring that she handed back to the store employee. He told her it was not the initial ring but she left the store with the ring.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe was stopped a short time later in the city centre and the diamond ring was on her finger.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe has 74 convictions for theft previously,\u201d said Garda McInerney said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The ring was recovered and returned to the jewellers.<\/p>\n
Defence barrister Jessica Kelleher: \u201cShe wants to get her act together. She is working to that end. Her family are supportive.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
A total sentence of two years was imposed with the last year suspended and backdated to February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 39-year-old woman tried on a diamond ring in a Cork jewellers then returned a fake version of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":579221,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2246,4711,79,54,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-579220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-cork-court","tag-cork-crime","tag-cork-news","tag-courts","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579220","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=579220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/579221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}