Worker repaid boss stolen €33k

A trusted salesman’s theft of €33,500 from his employer could have put a furniture store out of business but for the fact that the money was repaid, a court has heard.

John Colbert of Dwyer Road, Midleton, Co Cork, was given a three-year suspended term at Cork Circuit Criminal Court yesterday, where he had admitted eight sample charges on a 24-count indictment.

Defence barrister Ray Boland said that while Colbert was pleading guilty to the sample counts, the sentencing would take into consideration all of the counts against him.