Jail for ‘vicious’ daytime robbery

A Cork man who denied any part in a vicious lunchtime attack on an Albanian man, claiming he was having lunch in a café with his wife, was jailed yesterday for seven years with the last 18 months suspended.

Last week at Cork Circuit Criminal Court the five women and seven men on the jury delivered an 11-1 majority verdict against Trevor O’Sullivan.

The victim, 35-year-old Viron Kaja, is an Albanian national living in Ireland for the past 16 years and married to an Irish woman with whom he has two children. In a victim impact report he said the vicious robbery had deeply affected him.