Lookout who stayed 'out of misplaced loyalty' begged burglar to leave shop in Cork

Stephen Kiely told the sentencing hearing: “I got nothing.”

Cigarettes worth €3,223 were stolen. File photo: iStock

The lookout man for a burglary at a shop - where thousands of euro worth of cigarettes were stolen - repeatedly begged the other man to leave the premises.

That was how Stephen Kiely’s participation in the burglary of The Unity shop at Lower Glanmire Road, Cork, was described by his barrister Donal O’Sullivan at his sentencing.