Three years for attempted robbery

A MAN who held a gun to a shop assistant’s head during an attempted robbery has been jailed for three years.

Warren Brennan, aged 20, of Pearse House, Pearse Street, Dublin, pleaded guilty to the attempted robbery of an Esso station and the unlawful possession of a firearm and ammunition at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Detective Sergeant Barry Walsh said on March 27, 2008, Brennan and another man entered the Esso station on Strand Road, Sandymount. Brennan jumped the counter and grabbed the manager, pointed a replica handgun at her and demanded the keys of the safe.

But having failed to access the cash in the safe, Brennan and his accomplice fled.

The court heard Brennan committed the offences while still under a suspended sentence he received for two robberies in 2007. Judge Nolan reactivated the final two years of Brennan’s previous sentence and imposed an additional one-year term for the latest offence.