Teenager jailed for three years for street robberies

VIOLENT street robberies cause worry among the populations of towns, a judge said yesterday, as he jailed a teenager for three years for carrying out two such crimes in Macroom.

Judge Con Murphy imposed that sentence on Philip O’Driscoll, aged 19, of 2 Barrack Lane, Macroom, Co Cork, at Cork Circuit Criminal Court.

Detective Garda Tom O’Sullivan who investigated the robberies, said the first of them was committed by O’Driscoll within ten days of his being released from St Patrick’s Institution in Dublin where he was serving another sentence.