Burglar who shook hands with victim before being helped from his house gets two years in prison

A man who had to be helped by an occupant to exit the house he had burgled has been jailed for two years.

John Connors (aged 22) of Bremore Pastures Green, Balbriggan, Co Dublin pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to burglary at Hamlet Lane, Balbriggan, on January 4, last.