Jailed Limerick brothers withdraw appeal over sentence

The 12 chainsaws, 11 generators and seven power washers and assorted tools a  woman was pressured into buying at an extortionate price. Pic: An Garda Siochána

Two Limerick brothers who aggressively pushed an elderly woman to write almost €25,000 in cheques to buy a range of tools and equipment have withdrawn their appeal against the severity of a two-year jail term imposed on each of them for the crime.

Thomas O’Driscoll (40) of Boherbuoi, Rathkeale and Patrick O’Driscoll (39) of Wolfburgess East, Rathkeale, Co Limerick had pleaded guilty to a charge of deception at Goleen, Co Cork in November 2018 at a sitting of Cork Circuit Criminal Court last November.