Prisoner accused of stealing €399 suit from Cork shop left prison release form behind, court told

Cork man also accused of stealing €238 worth of clothing from TK Maxx on Cornmarket Street

Accused was on temporary release from Cork Prison, court told. Picture Dan Linehan

A 48-year-old man tried on a €399 suit at Mick Murphy’s Menswear on North Main Street in Cork and left his old clothes in a bundle behind him without paying for the suit, and his temporary release form from Cork Prison was later found with the clothes abandoned at the shop.

This was the allegation made by Garda Ronan O’Sullivan at Cork District Court where there was an objection to bail being granted to Gerry Foley, of no fixed address and Grenville Place, Cork.