Getaway driver jailed for 12 years after Operation Evening Mass

'No other type of offence causes more fear and misery than gangs going around committing burglaries. It has caused a lockdown in communities long before Covid, bringing terror to innocent people,' says judge

Couple gave permission to have six Garda officers in the house to catch them in an investigation called Operation Evening Mass.

Gangs targeting the homes of elderly and vulnerable people living in remote areas bring terror to innocent people, a judge said today as he jailed a getaway driver for such a crime for 12 years and banned him from driving for 20 years.

A jury unanimously found the getaway driver guilty of the highly planned burglary in North Cork in October 2019.