Addict who stole from gran remanded on bail

A heroin addict who stole €9,000 from his then 81-year-old grandmother to buy drugs has been remanded on bail for sentence by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Jonathan Clarke (aged 25) of O’Devaney Gardens and his co-accused also locked his grandmother in a cupboard under her stairs which they then blocked with a sofa after they robbed her.