Addict who robbed grandmother jailed for five years

A heroin addict who stole €9,000 from his then 81-year-old grandmother to buy drugs and his accomplice have been given five-year suspended sentences at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

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