Delivery driver jailed for spirits theft

A delivery van driver made an impromptu decision to pick up 18 bottles of spirits for himself from a cage in a loading bay — and yesterday he was sentenced to four months for theft.

David Castanho, of 17 Grange Mór Park, Rosslare Strand, Co Wexford, pleaded guilty at Cork District Court yesterday to his part in the theft.

He and another man used a sweeping brush to direct CCTV cameras away from the location where the alcohol was placed but the cameras still captured the van that Castanho was driving at the time.