Drug addict sentenced in robbery case

A drug addict who robbed a newsagents while unlawfully at large from Wheatfield Prison has been given a six-year prison sentence by Judge Yvonne Murphy at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

James Carroll (aged 24), of Cromlech Fields, Ballybrack first came to garda attention when seven years old, started taking drugs at 13 and has spent all but 20 months of the last 10 years in detention or prison.