Woman stole €21,000 of clothes to feed habit

A saleswoman who stole more than €21,000 from a French Connection clothes store to fund her cocaine habit has been given a two-year suspended sentence by Judge Desmond Hogan at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Alyson Conway, aged 24, with a former address at St Michael’s Terrace, Ennis Road, Limerick pleaded guilty to 11 sample counts of larceny from Fcuk Ltd at the Powerscourt Shopping Centre, where she worked as a sales assistant.