'Addict'' sentenced to five years for crime spree

A drug addict who went on a crime spree for five years, committing 46 offences, has been given a nine-year jail sentence by Judge Yvonne Murphy at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Mark Clifford (aged 30) of Kilmartin Drive, Feathercairn, Tallaght, pleaded guilty to 12 robberies, a number of charges of reckless endangerment and road traffic offences, the unlawful seizure of a BMW and an attempted robbery on dates between September 2000 and March 2005.