Man to be sentenced for hospital burglary next week

A man who served a sentence for the manslaughter of his best friend over a decade ago will be sentenced next week for burglary at St James's Hospital.

Mark McCowan (aged 32), of Knockmore Crescent, Tallaght, was before Judge Patrick McCartan, having been found guilty following a trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court of committing the burglary on February 18, 2007.