Man who conned elderly woman out of €10,000 jailed for three years

A Kerry man with a track record in duping elderly women and men into paying him for work that was never done has been was jailed for three years for conning an elderly woman out of more than €10,000 that she had saved to pay for her funeral.

Judge Seán Ó Donnabháin described the thefts carried out by Denis O’Brien, aged 29, of 2 Hazelwood Drive, Ballyspillane, Killarney, Co Kerry, as mean and despicable.