'Operation Evening Mass' case hears claims of conflicting evidence

Man denies entering a house as trespasser to commit theft while elderly couple were out attending Mass

The Garda investigation went under the names Operation Pawn and Operation Evening Mass. File picture: Dan Linehan

A defence lawyer for a man who denies being the getaway driver for an organised burglary at the home of a couple in their 80s who were attending evening Mass claimed there was conflicting evidence about two gear bags in the accused man’s car.

John Faulkner, aged 38, of 4 Adelaide Place, St Luke’s, Cork, denies entering a house as a trespasser to commit a theft at Freemount, Charleville, Co Cork, on Saturday, October 19, 2019.