Cork service station manager 'in late-life crisis' stole €55k from employer

Accused told: 'You were in a position of significant trust — the most important person in that service station — and you breached that trust in a most egregious way'

The court heard that the accused worked in a position of trust at the service station. Picture: Denis Minihane

A former manager of the Amber service station in Ballyhooly, Cork,  was sentenced to three and a half years suspended for stealing more than €55,000 from his then-employer.

Detective Garda Dave Barry testified at Cork Circuit Criminal Court that Charlie McCarthy, aged 69, of 12 The Paddocks, Kennel Hill, Mallow, Co Cork, delayed the banking of the service station’s daily takings and then would, for instance, bank four days of takings to the company account and divert one day’s takings to his own benefit.