Man smashed at lotto machine and tills with baseball bat during supermarket robbery, court hears

A man with 139 previous convictions who smashed at a lotto machine and tills with a baseball bat during a supermarket robbery has been given a three year sentence.

Joseph French (25) is currently serving a seven-and-a-half year sentence for other robberies committed in 2014 and an offence of endangerment in which he reversed his car at speed towards a garda in 2015. This new sentence will be consecutive to a portion of that term.