Jail for addict who committed crime spree

A drug addict who committed over 40 crimes in less than a year, including dousing a service station assistant with petrol and threatening to burn him, has been jailed for 13 years.

Gary Hall, aged 31, of Hill Street, Summerhill "undoubtedly committed the greatest litany of crime I have ever had to deal with", Judge Frank O’Donnell said at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.