Bandon retailer sorry for theft suggestion

A Bandon shopkeeper has apologised and agreed to pay undisclosed damages to a bank official after admitting he used language and behaved in such a way as to wrongly suggest she had stolen articles from his discount store.

In an apology read to the High Court, Peter Appelbe said his conduct and language on December 20, 2012, both in his Price Savers shop at South Main St, Bandon, Co Cork, and in the town’s Ulster Bank, where Maireád O’Carroll worked, suggested she had stolen articles from his shop that day.

“I admit that any such suggestion was wholly without foundation and I regret that I used such language and conducted myself in such a manner,” Mr Appelbe’s apology stated.