No jail for heroin addict who robbed Cork taxi drivers with a knife

The defendant was offered heroin as a way of numbing the grief following the deaths of his younger brother and his father in tragic circumstances

One of the taxi drivers was 75 years old. Picture: Denis Minihane

A Cork man who carried out armed robberies on two taxi drivers and attempted the same crime a third time to pay for his heroin addiction has been freed from prison after seven months. One of his victims was 75 years old.

William Cambridge was sentenced by Judge James O’Donoghue to a total sentence of four years with the balance of the sentence to be fully suspended. The judge said at Cork Circuit Criminal Court that the seven months he was remanded in custody on the charges to date would be taken into consideration and that the balance would be suspended.