Post-office robber jailed for seven and half years

A former drug addict who held a knife to the throat of an elderly woman during a post office robbery has been given a seven-and-a-half year sentence by Judge Tony Hunt at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Paul Bradley (aged 29), who has 81 previous convictions, had begged Judge Hunt last January when the evidence was heard not to send him to Mountjoy Prison where he said he “would not stand a chance” because it was “destroyed with drugs”. He had been released from a previous sentence just before Christmas.