Burglar who asked for cup of tea given seven-year term

A burglar who terrorised an elderly woman before telling her his life story and asking for a cup of tea has been given a seven-year sentence by Judge Katherine Delahunt at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Quentin Sheridan (aged 33) offered an apology to his 62-year-old victim through his defence counsel, Mr Cormac Quinn BL, who also told the court that Sheridan suffered a serious assault in prison and “now knows what it’s like to be a victim of crime first-hand”.