'Serial offender' broke Covid-19 laws to steal fuel

“Serial offender” Richard Kiely was handed a two-year road ban after he paid €850 for the fuel he stole from stations 20 times in recent months.

Richard Kiely had been reselling the fuel to help pay a debt built up from using cocaine, the court heard.

A 29-year-old Dublin man, who broke the Covid-19 movement restriction laws when he carried out a litany of fuel drive-off thefts from petrol stations has been given a four-month suspended sentence.

“Serial offender” Richard Kiely, from Ballyowen Lane, Lucan, Co Dublin was also handed a two-year road ban after he paid €850 for the fuel he stole from stations 20 times in recent months.