'Apartment scam' criminal handed suspended sentence

A Polish national whose €28,100 Dublin city centre "apartment scam" left some foreign nationals living on the streets has been given an 18-month suspended sentence by Judge Patricia Ryan.

Leszek Mikulski (aged 27) with an address at Jamestown Park, Ratoath, Co Meath pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to 14 charges of theft on dates between February and March 2007.