Man filmed on phone camera during first of three burglaries at Cork apartment complex jailed

When the judge heard he was pleading guilty, they said: 'He hasn’t much of a choice. He was recorded by one of the residents.'

Brendan Colohan has been jailed for a total of 10 months. File photo

A tenant at an apartment complex woke in the early hours and captured an intruder outside her bedroom window by means of her mobile phone video camera and now the 41-year-old has been jailed for a total of 10 months.

Brendan Colohan of Carrigbeg House, Sunday’s Well Road, Cork, pleaded guilty to three counts of burglary at the same premises — the Scholar Lee apartments on Western Road, Cork.