British criminal gets two years and six months for robbing Australian backpackers

Two Australian backpackers said they would never come to Dublin again after two British criminals broke into their apartment, threatened to cut them up and robbed them, a court heard.

Wayne Jones (aged 35), a British panel-beater, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to stealing €1,050 in cash and a mobile phone worth €150 from a flat on Lower Gardiner Street on January 9, 2007. Jones, who repaired yachts, gave no address to gardaí.