'I'll never be the same,' says victim as Cork teen jailed for 'nasty' iPhone robbery

Judge Boyle told the accused: “The problem here is that you are violent when you drink."

The defendant changed the access code for the iPhone and refused to tell gardaí what it was. In this way the phone was available to the owner but useless to him. File photo

A teenager who robbed an iPhone 12 from another youth had four previous convictions for assaulting others and another four for assault causing harm and now he has been jailed for 18 months.

Judge Helen Boyle imposed a sentence of three years, with half of it suspended on 19-year-old Anthony Butler of 5 Churchfield Terrace East, Churchfield, Cork, at Cork Circuit Criminal Court. Judge Boyle noted that defence barrister John Devlin did not shy away from the fact that this was a very nasty offence.