Heroin addict gets seven years for handbag snatches

A Dublin heroin addict who was extradited from Holland after serving three years of a six-year sentence there, was sentenced to seven years at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court today.

James Boland, 37, of North Summer St, Dublin 1, who absconded to the Netherlands in 1995, was jailed for "preying on vulnerable elderly women and robbing them".