A chronic heroin addict who committed robberies to feed his habit has been jailed for four years and eight months by Judge Dominic Lynch at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court. Patrick Farrell threatened to set one shop assistant alight with petrol and lighting fluid.
Farrell (34), of Dunne Street, Dublin, pleaded guilty to seven charges of robbery, one of attempted robbery and one of assault with intent to rob between August 1997 and July 1998.