Man stole €23k mobile home he was to rent

Cork City Council gave a young man a €23,000 mobile home on a rental basis to live in and he arranged for a crane and haulier to remove it to Co Kildare.

Man stole €23k mobile home he was to rent

Detective Garda Mick Dolan said yesterday that it was only when the mobile home was being moved by an associate of the young man from the yard in Kildare to a third location that gardaí intercepted and seized it.

Michael Stokes, aged 22, of 12 St Anthony’s Park, Dave McCarthy Road, Knocknaheeny, was sentenced to 18 months in jail at Cork Circuit Criminal Court yesterday on the theft charge.

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