‘I ain’t very good at shoplifting, am I?’ says convicted thief

A serial shoplifter, who was convicted yesterday of carrying out more than 30 thefts, declared from the dock at his sentencing hearing: “I ain’t very good at shoplifting, am I?”

Between March and November this year, Mark Duggan was estimated to have snatched a total of €7,000 of goods.

Judge Olann Kelleher imposed a 20-month sentence on Duggan at Cork District Court yesterday, to start at the end of the four months he has been serving.