Woman jailed for 'mean and nasty' theft of sleeping patient's bank cards in Cork hospital

The defendant also stole a tip jar from the counter of a deli on Princes Street

The patient was in St Catherine’s ward in the Mercy University Hospital in Cork city when she woke to find that her two bank cards, including a Revolut card, had been stolen while she slept. File picture: Larry Cummins

A hospital patient had two bank cards stolen from her bedside locker as she slept in a crime which the sentencing judge described as particularly mean and nasty.

Lisa Lenihan pleaded guilty to this and other thefts at Cork District Court where Judge Olann Kelleher jailed her for a total of six months.