Burglar rang for taxi home from house near scene of the crime

After ransacking a house in an upmarket Limerick suburb, a burglar went to a nearby house where the unsuspecting resident allowed him to phone a taxi to make his getaway.

Weighed down with goods worth about €10,000 and which included gold, jewellery, clothing, bottles of spirits, and iPhones, Marcus Graham left Ashbrook on Limerick’s Ennis Road in the taxi.

Graham told the taxi driver he had no money to pay for the fare and offered bottles of stolen spirits instead.