Man fails in appeal against nine-month sentence for stealing from 97-year-old

Dr Burke had told Mallow District Court last year how he had gone to do his shopping at SuperValu on the day in question and as he was walking from his car towards the rear shop entrance with his shopping trolley, a man drove in to the car park in a dark-coloured car and beckoned him to approach him.

“As I passed he said he wanted to see me for a minute – he said there was some trouble with notes – he said he was a police man and he showed me an identification document and a badge,” said Dr Burke, adding he couldn’t remember exactly whether the man said he was a policeman or a bank official. “He asked me had I any notes on me because there were a lot of forged notes going around . . . I took out €700 that I had on me – €700 in €50s and a couple of €20s and he said he wanted to take a look at them to see if they were forged notes and the minute he got them in his hands, he was gone.”

109 previous convictions.....12 more than the total in years the man he cruelly robbed has been alive!

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