Cork man who stole Spiderman toothbrush given four-month jail sentence

The court heard that the defendant got a number of other jail sentences recently for mainly shoplifting offences

Judge Mary Dorgan agreed not to make Monday’s sentence consecutive to what he was already serving. The new sentence of four months will run concurrently with the longer term of 18 months. File picture: Dan Linehan

A Spiderman electric toothbrush was stolen by a 40-year-old man with extensive previous convictions for theft and on Monday he was jailed for four months.

As well as stealing the Spiderman Oral B electric toothbrush valued €55 at Sam McCauley’s chemist at Blackpool shopping centre on February 21, 2024, the same man concealed eight packets of beef steak in his pants and under his top at Scally’s Supervalu on Skehard Road, Cork, more recently on June 29 this year.