Man jailed for trying to blow up ATM in Cork 'with mishmash put together from internet'

Evan Stubbins was sentenced to five years in prison at Cork Circuit Criminal Court. File pic: Provision

A young man with a drugs debt planned to blow up an ATM using a potentially catastrophic gas explosion at a petrol station but patrolling gardaí became suspicious of a car parked in the area and thwarted the escapade.

Judge Seán Ó Donnabháin sentenced 20-year-old Evan Stubbins from Church Road, Croom, County Limerick, to five years in prison at Cork Circuit Criminal Court.