Man 'in throes of addiction' jailed for his part in robbing two men in Cork City

One of the victims sustained a fracture to an eye socket — an injury which the judge described as being slow to heal

He was one of a gang of four who robbed the men and he has been jailed for two-and-a-half years. File picture: Dan Linehan

Two men walking home in the early hours from a night out socialising in Cork city centre came under attack from a gang of four who robbed them of their belongings.

Now one of the men involved in that group who carried out the attack has been jailed for two-and-a-half years at Cork Circuit Criminal Court.