Judge compares stealing phone to grave-robbing

The theft of a mobile phone from a man who lay unconscious on the street was compared to grave-robbing by a sentencing judge yesterday.

Inspector Brian O’Donovan said the man was walking home by Cattlemarket Avenue, off Blarney St in Cork, when he was hit from behind and knocked unconscious.

Nobody was ever charged with this assault but in the follow-up investigation, it was found that Shane Justice, of 91 Gerald Griffin St, Cork, had the man’s phone.