Couple get suspended sentence for post-disco syringe robbery

A criminal couple who worked together to rob a man at syringe-point, after he accepted a lift from the woman outside a Leeson Street disco, have been ordered to carry out 240 hours community service by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Eamon Kinsella, aged 20, of Pearse Street, and Katherine Byrne, aged 28, of O’Rahilly House, Ringsend, pleaded guilty to robbing €200 from the victim on July 20, 2003.