Cork woman who avoided jail three times on theft charges 'has run out of chances'

Judge told woman that suspended sentences were an opportunity for someone to change their behaviour but that in her case she had failed to take the opportunity given to her

Court heard the accused went to Tesco on Paul Street and put €74 worth of items into a trolley and left without paying for them.

A woman who got suspended sentences for theft three times previously was told by a judge she had run out of chances and he gave her a prison sentence.

“You cannot be given a chance and then another chance and then another chance. You have to go to prison,” Judge Colm Roberts said at Cork District Court.