IT knowledge used to steal thousands

A computer-savvy young man used his knowledge to steal thousands of euro worth of property by buying it online with forged credit card details.

Cormac Haydon, aged 22, with an address at a flat at 27 St Patrick’s Hill, Cork, now living in Carlow, yesterday at Cork District Court confessed to 12 separate charges carried out between April 2011 and February 2012.

Defence solicitor, Frank Buttimer, said the accused was a courteous and mannerly young man with a most unusual psychological profile. “If he applied his knowledge of computers in a proper way, he would be a tremendous asset to anyone.”