DPP decision delayed in case of man accused of stealing from pensioner

DIRECTIONS are still awaited from the Director of Public Prosecutions in the case against a man accused of impersonating a garda and stealing €28,000 from a pensioner in Cork city in June.

Inspector Gary McPolin told Judge Con O’Leary at Cork District Court yesterday that the prosecution required a two-week adjournment to obtain the DPP’s directions.

Defence solicitor Frank Buttimer, said that as Kenneth Lyons, 29, of 25 Willison Meadows, Tower, Blarney, Co Cork, was out on bail, there was consent to a longer adjournment.