€1k stolen with sleight of hand 'like a three-card trick'

After viewing CCTV footage of the incident at a garage, judge gives accused chance to avoid conviction by compensating victim 

The judge said that if Mr Moncinskas gathered €1,250 to the garage then the theft charge would be struck out. Picture: iStock

A skillful sleight of hand worthy of a three-card trick was used by a man to take an envelope containing over €1,000 in €50 notes that had been left on the counter of a garage by another customer.

One of the main pieces of evidence put forward in the theft prosecution of 42-year-old Vidas Moncinskas of Templemichael, Whitescross, Co Cork, by Inspector Gillian Sinnott at Cork District Court was CCTV evidence from over the counter.