Apartment conman given time to compensate victims

A Polish national whose €28,100 Dublin city centre "apartment scam" left some foreign nationals living on the streets has been given time to allow him compensate his 14 victims before he is sentenced.

Leszek Mikulski (aged 27) who was given bail in August on condition that he reside at Jamestown Park, Ratoath, Co Meath, pleaded guilty to 14 charges of theft on dates between February and March 2007 at two Dublin city centre apartments on Usher’s Quay and Wellington Quay.