Cork burglar told cocooning pensioner he was a garda

Judge Seán Ó Donnabháin imposed a sentence of seven years on 45-year-old Anthony Horgan with the last year suspended at Cork Circuit Criminal Court.

 A man who broke into the home of an 83-year-old woman, shining a torch in her bedroom and announcing himself as a garda looking for burglars was jailed for six years for this burglary and a spree of others.

Judge Seán Ó Donnabháin imposed a sentence of seven years on 45-year-old Anthony Horgan with the last year suspended at Cork Circuit Criminal Court.