Chef found with safe stolen during Storm Ophelia sentenced to two years

A chef broke into a credit union in the early hours of last New Year's Eve and was later found to have had in his apartment a steel safe that had been stolen from a Boylesports betting shop during the electricity blackout of Storm Ophelia.

Mohamed Boussir, a 28-year-old Spaniard, had also tried to break into a pub - called The Spaniard - in the County Cork town of Kinsale.