‘I’ll never use an ATM again’

A 68-year-old woman said she would never again take cash from an ATM after a man knocked her down and robbed her, leaving her with a fractured hip.

‘I’ll never use an ATM again’

Detective Sergeant Tim Murphy said that, despite what she suffered, the victim told him before he gave evidence against Carsten Mielke, 43, at Cork Circuit Criminal Court to go easy.

“Don’t go too hard on him, he wasn’t very good at what he was doing,” the pensioner told the detective.

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