Teen jailed for robbery claims gun was put to his head

A Carrigaline teenager who said he had a gun put to his head and was ordered to carry out an armed robbery to clear a drugs debt, was jailed for three years yesterday.

Jack Ahern went to Cash Connectors on MacCurtain St with a sawn-off shotgun, robbed €43,000 worth of jewellery, and jumped into a getaway van.

Sgt Kieran O’Sullivan said the accused told him an unidentified person put a gun to his head in a hotel in Cork the night before and told him that if he did not carry it out, he would be shot.