‘Everyone deserves a second chance’

A St John’s ambulance volunteer suffered a dislocated shoulder and fractured wrist when a man dragged her to the ground as he tried to rob her handbag and yesterday she said of the accused: “Everyone deserves a second chance.”

Detective Garda Cormac Crotty said the victim was dragged to the ground when the accused pulled her handbag. He said the accused felt immediate remorse and it was someone else who fled the scene with the handbag.

Jane Buckley was on her way to an AGM for St John’s Ambulance on May 3, 2011, when the attempted robbery occurred. David Long, aged 38, fled to England afterwards and ended up serving a jail sentence over there for an unrelated crime.