Man gets jail for robbery and assault within 20 minutes in Cork

Judge Seán Ó Donnabháin sentenced Manuel Ulian to three years in prison with the last six months suspended today at Cork Circuit Criminal Court.

Car lights were flashed at a man wearing a balaclava to identify a stranger walking home from Cork city and the victim was then followed, seriously assaulted and robbed.

The level of planning that went into the robbing of the young man walking home from the city to Ballyphehane were identified by the sentencing judge today as aggravating factors in the case against one of the accused men.