Wicklow youth sentenced for 'cowardly' burglarly of elderly man

A Wicklow youth who restrained a 70-year-old man in an armchair at an old folks complex while his accomplice searched the man’s flat for cash to steal was given a two-year suspended sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

The now 17-year-old youth, who cannot be named for legal reasons, pleaded guilty to the burglary and theft on September 17, 2007 at Ballybough Court.