Jewellery worth €190,000 sold for €500 of heroin

A burglar who stole a safe containing €190,000 worth of jewellery which he sold “as scrap” for €500 worth of heroin has been jailed for four years at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Gerry Connors, aged 28, told gardaí he had hopped over the garden wall of the house in Killiney, Dublin, to urinate and peered in a window. He spotted a glass jar full of coins and smashed a window with a rock.

He then went through the house and discovered the safe, which also had €10,000 in various currencies, in a press.