Cork man avoids jail after confrontation with two brothers

Buster Holland, aged 25, of Belmont Court, Rochestown, signed pleas of guilty to charges including the robbery of an iPhone at Maryborough Hill, Douglas, stealing a black flat cap from a man, causing criminal damage to the phone and assaulting the man causing him harm.

“Man wants your money, man wants your phone.” These were the words used by a man who confronted two brothers who stepped off a bus near their home in the early hours of the morning.

One of the victims was head-butted and punched in the course of the crime.