Woman took mother’s rings worth €60k

A young woman who stole rings valued at €60,000 from her mother and stole more rings from her grandmother was given a suspended two-year jail sentence yesterday.

Judge Patrick J Moran said to Amy O’Donovan, aged 26: “This was a nasty crime, which was committed by you on your own mother and your grandmother. You sold the rings and got a very, very considerable undervalue for the rings — only a few hundred euro.”

Det Garda James O’Reilly testified at Cork Circuit Criminal Court that O’Donovan stole the rings from her mother’s home at Mervue Crescent, Ballyvolane, Cork, and sold them. O’Donovan was living at a house at Bridgetown Close, Castlemartyr, Co Cork, at the time. Det Garda Hayes said that while the defendant was not living at her mother’s home she did have access to the house.