Meat products were among the items targeted by a woman carrying out shoplifting offences around Cork city and now she has been jailed for six months.<\/p>\n
Judge David Waters imposed this sentence on Sandra Robinson of St John\u2019s Tce, World\u2019s End, Kinsale, Co Cork, at Cork District Court.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is targeted theft of high-value items, it is not stealing for subsistence,\u201d Judge Waters said.<\/p>\n
Diarmuid Kelleher, solicitor, said that the 34-year-old woman from Bandon had a good start in life, did very well in her Leaving Certificate, and then went to the UK with her partner, where she worked as a health care assistant for six years.<\/p>\n
Mr Kelleher said that she was traumatised by grief when her brother died in an accident on a holiday in Portugal, and she had \u201ca complete breakdown\u201d.<\/p>\n
At this time, she encountered heroin and she ended up getting into trouble as a result.<\/p>\n
Her aim now, her solicitor said, is to stay off heroin and return to the UK and get her life back together.<\/p>\n
Noting that she had previously received a number of suspended sentences in the past, Judge Waters said the time for suspended sentences had passed.<\/p>\n
He imposed a six-month prison term for a litany of shoplifting offences.<\/p>\n
On March 18, at HMV at Merchants Quay, the 34-year-old stole \u20ac120 worth of electronic items.<\/p>\n
On September 13, she stole selected meat products from Tesco, Paul St, Cork.<\/p>\n
On September 24, she stole \u20ac84 worth of meat at Tesco Express, South Main St.<\/p>\n
On September 29, she stole curtains and bedclothes valued at a total of \u20ac230 at Next on Opera Lane.<\/p>\n
She stole \u20ac50 groceries from Tesco, Mahon Point shopping centre, on October 4.<\/p>\n
On October 9, at Marks and Spencer, she stole \u20ac185 worth of meat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meat products were among the items targeted by a woman carrying out shoplifting offences around Cork city and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":667738,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[54,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-667737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-courts","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667737","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=667737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/667738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}