Raiders put ‘gun’ to head of woman

A 30-year-old man who held the wife of a bank manager hostage in her home has been sentenced to 10 years in prison.

Raiders put ‘gun’ to  head of woman

Philip Hipwell, of 21 Dargle Heights, Bray, Co Wicklow, pleaded guilty before Judge Raymond Fullam at Wexford Circuit Criminal court to having entered a house at Gorey on Aug 4, 2009, as a trespasser and committed an assault at a time when he had an imitation firearm.

He further pleaded guilty to having an imitation firearm with intent to commit an assault.

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