Apple worker stole 2 iPhones

A Portuguese Apple employee, who was under pressure to repay Russian drug dealers in Cork and stole two iPhones from the company’s base in Hollyhill, has received a four-month suspended sentence.

Judge Olann Kelleher said yesterday that Bruno Viera of Capwell Rd, Turner’s Cross, Cork, had breached the trust of his employers by stealing the two iPhones.

Viera, 37, said he had not just lost his job but had lost a career he had been building up over years in Ireland. He said that before losing his job he had been managing 20 people.