Woman smiles as she is jailed for 'extremely nasty' theft in Cork hospital

The defendant was arrested and questioned subsequently and she made full admissions to stealing the jacket

Donna Dineen stole a woman's jacket while they were both waiting in the emergency unit of Mercy University Hospital. File picture: Larry Cummins

A patient lying on a trolley at the accident and emergency unit of Mercy University Hospital had her jacket stolen as she waited, a court in Cork has heard.

On Monday the culprit was jailed for five months for what the sentencing judge described as an extremely nasty crime.