Dublin woman jailed for role in two burglaries

A woman who burgled an elderly man’s home with an accomplice posing as a garda has been jailed for three and a half years.

Anne-Marie Byrne, aged 30, was also jailed for two robberies of video stores committed within a day of each other.

Byrne of Kincora Rd, Clontarf, Dublin, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to burglary of Joseph Rowe’s home in Sutton on January 24, 2011. She also pleaded guilty to separate robberies at Xtravision in Ongar village on April 6, 2013, and Xtravision at Blanchardstown Shopping Centre on April 7.