Judge: Our elderly must be protected

A measure of a society is how it protects elderly people, a judge said yesterday when jailing, for three years, a handbag snatcher who robbed a 74-year-old nun and a second woman, aged 79.

Christopher Casey, aged 39, McGarry House, St Alphonsus St, Limerick, and originally from St Mary’s Park, pleaded guilty at Limerick Circuit Court to robbing the women on August 18, 2015, and March 12 last.

He was on bail for the first robbery when he carried out the second offence.