Cork burglar jailed after betting shop break-in

Court told accused had 161 previous convictions and had relapsed over the past year

The accused was arrested soon after the offence.

A Cork man who clambered up onto a building’s flat roof and then broke a window into a betting shop has been jailed for 10 months.

John Paul Thornton, 42,  of no fixed address, pleaded guilty at Cork District Court to carrying out the burglary at Ladbrokes, Edward Walsh Road, Togher, Cork, on September 19.