Foiled robbery lands 'amateurs' in jail

Three amateur robbers from the 'Keystone cops' era whose planned armed raid on a Securicor van at the Lucan Spa Hotel was foiled by gardaí have received a total of 12 years in sentences.

Anthony Fox (aged 35), of Corduff Park, Blanchardstown who was the purported getaway driver was "a very bad one who struck a sign in Lucan on his way to the scene", his defence counsel, Mr Martin Giblin SC, told Judge Katherine Delahunt at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.