No jail as men steal €11k from woman, 79

Two Kerrymen who were jailed two months ago for the “very mean” crime of stealing €11,000 from a 79-year-old Corkwoman for a €400 job on her roof were given suspended jail sentences yesterday.

Thomas Coffey, aged 54, and his nephew Patrick Coffey, aged 21, of Ballyspillane, Killarney, Co Kerry, were brought from jail to Cork Circuit Criminal Court for sentencing yesterday for stealing €11,000 from the woman living at MacCurtain’s Villas, College Rd, Cork, on July 28 last year.

Judge Seán Ó Donnabháin imposed two years on each man, backdated to February, when they went into custody, and suspended the balance of the sentence from yesterday.