Bullion raid turns into fiasco for raiders
Corkman Aidan Murphy, aged 32, was yesterday jailed for five years by Judge Martin Nolan for his role in the offence. His two accomplices are before the courts.
The raiders were after up to €440,000 worth of gold and cash which was being stored on the premises. They held two of the staff at gunpoint while making them go through the elaborate procedure necessary to open the safe system.
However, another raider had fled the scene with the keys by then, meaning the remaining men were trapped on the premises. They couldn’t open the safe or the front shutters, which their accomplice had locked behind him.
Murphy of Stag Park Avenue, Mitchelstown, pleaded guilty to attempted robbery and two counts of false imprisonment at the Bullion Room, Bolton Street, Dublin, on August 10, 2010. He has 51 previous convictions.
Judge Nolan jailed Murphy for five years, noting his early guilty plea and expressions of remorse.
