Cork burglar who told cocooning pensioner he was a garda has sentence increased

The pensioner was confronted with the bat-wielding burglar at 4am and lost more than €2,500 in cash

Quashing the original five-year term, the judge said Jones would now serve six years in total for the burglaries, with the last 12 months suspended. File photo

A bat-wielding burglar who broke into the home of a cocooning pensioner at 4am and shone a torch into her face while pretending he was a member of An Garda Síochána has had his jail time increased.

In February, Christopher Jones (28) was jailed for aggravated burglary and impersonating a member of An Garda Síochána after pleading guilty to the offence and other burglaries of houses in Cork city during the first Covid lockdown in April 2020.