Jail for man who claimed 'doppelgänger' robbed taxi driver

Robert Lynch was one of two men who attacked a man in his taxi after he had picked them up in a garage forecourt.

A man who told gardaí it was his “doppelgänger” who had carried out the robbery of a taxi driver has been jailed for three-and-a-half years.

Robert Lynch, 32, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to the robbery of Alan Thompson on the Malahide Road, Dublin on September 4, 2016.