Drug addict pulled knife on shop staff because he had no money for Christmas gifts

The net effect of sentencing now leaves the accused man facing into three years in jail with another six months suspended.
Peter Matthews, aged 20, formerly of St Vincent’s hostel, Anglesea Terrace, Cork, was sentenced at Cork Circuit Criminal Court his to attempting to rob Daybreak on Anglesea St and Spar on Sullivan’s Quay on December 11, 2014.