Kildare gambler stole from employer

A Kildare man with a gambling debt who in "a moment of weakness" stole €9,500 from his employer has been given a one-year suspended sentence by Judge Patricia Ryan at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Will Pidgeon (aged 40), of The Crescent, College Farm, Newbridge, a former member of the Irish Air Force, pleaded guilty to stealing the cash at GSLS, a logistics company, based at Muirfield Drive, Naas Road on February 28, 2008. He had no previous convictions.