Teen in court after bank customers targeted

A teenager appeared at Cork District Court yesterday in relation to an investigation into the targeting of bank customers after they had withdrawn substantial sums of cash from branches around Munster.

Detectives from Cork arrested and charged Wesley Maughan, aged 18, with a total of three offences when they brought him before Cashel District Court in Co Tipperary during the Easter holidays.

Mr Maughan of Coolnagarra, Burncourt, Cahir, Co Tipperary, is due to appear at Cork District Court on Monday but he turned up yesterday for the purpose of varying bail so that he could reside instead at 173 Prior’s Gate, Tallaght, Dublin, and sign in daily at Tallaght Garda Station. He is to stay out of Cork except for court appearances and legal appointments.