French student 'afraid for her life' during house burglary

A Dublin man who assaulted and tied up two French students in their bedrooms during a violent night burglary will be sentenced at a later date.

Stuart Whelan (aged 27) of Keeper Road, Drimnagh pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to the false imprisonment of a man and a woman at Herberton Road, Rialto on April 4, 2011.