Jail for ex-addict who stole for drug money and taxi to Galway

A former drug addict who spent stolen charity money on drugs and a taxi from Mayo to Galway has received a partially suspended nine-year sentence for this theft and two robberies.

Terence Maughan (aged 35) of Cabra Park, Phibsboro, Dublin, had been living in Mayo when he walked into a St Vincent de Paul shop office and took €2,510 which had been intended for a bank lodgement.