Kinsale robber targeted woman, 87, three times within days

A Kinsale man targeted an 87-year-old woman and robbed her as she went to bless herself at the holy water font of her church and on another occasion broke into her home where he pushed her around.
Kinsale robber targeted woman, 87, three times within days

Det Garda Brian Maker said Paddy O’Brien, aged 52, set upon the victim on three occasions and CCTV showed him following her from a shop to the nearby church.

The 87-year-old woman gave the oath in Irish yesterday before giving her victim impact evidence in which she said: “He appears to be a man of cruelty who enjoys having a victim in his clutches.”

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