Man with underwear fetish broke headpiece

A father of four with a fetish for breaking into women’s homes to steal their underwear has handed over €700 in compensation for damaging one victim’s designer headpiece, which he broke in a jealous rage because he did not own one like it himself.

Gerard Lee, aged 61, a native of Limerick with an address at 68, Killeen Woods, Tralee, Co Kerry, pleaded guilty before Galway District Court in April to burglary at a house in Forster Court, Galway, on August 1, 2015.

Lee pleaded guilty also to burglary at a neighbouring house in The Elms, Forster St, on the previous night, and to handling a woman’s purse knowing it was stolen on the same night.