Judge requests welfare report on homeless man charged with thefts from Cork supermarket

The court was told that housing and alcohol were both issues for the defendant who had effectively been homeless since 2019

The thefts happened at Hurley’s SuperValu in Midleton in June 2025. File picture: Daragh McSweeney/Provision

A thief who stole wine and a microwave dinner from a Cork supermarket has pleaded guilty to two counts of theft, being intoxicated in public and engaging in threatening and abusive behaviour.

Court presenter Majella O’Sullivan told Midleton District Court that Aengus Climent, aged 44, of no fixed abode, went to Hurley’s SuperValu in Midleton on June 20, 2025, and took a bottle of wine valued at €8 and left the premises without paying for it.