Several appearances on CCTV, including a featured appearance on RTÉ's Crimeline, have culminated in a five-year sentence for a chronic drug addict who went on a wave of robberies.
Terence Jenkins (30), had also featured on security videos when he robbed various premises without disguise in a series of crimes which began in March 2002 shortly after his release from a four-year prison sentence imposed in 1999 at Tralee Circuit Criminal Court and ended with his arrest in Dundalk on July 29th.
Jenkins, of Isolde Road, Ringsend, also left fingerprints when he robbed AIB Bank in Grafton Street, Dublin on June 11th, 2002 wearing an Irish tricolour on his chest during the Republic of Ireland's world cup game with Saudi Arabia.
Garda Kevin Mulvey told prosecuting counsel Mr Patrick McGrath BL that Jenkins was formally identified following his Crimeline appearance.
Det Garda Gareth Billings said Jenkins spent about €9,000 on heroin after he got away on a bicycle with a box containing €20,000 from a Securicor van replenishing the Bank of Ireland ATM at the Nutgrove Shopping Centre on June 18th, 2002.
Det Garda Billings said Jenkins was identified to him in confidential information as a probable suspect and gardaí recovered €1350 notes concealed by him in his sister's house unknown to her. The balance was never recovered.
Jenkins told gardaí he hid the box when he heard "a funny noise" and saw smoke coming from it but came back later and recovered about €9,000 from it.
He abandoned the rest which was destroyed by the security dye and smoke.
Jenkins, the father of a teenage daughter, is serving a total of four years in sentences imposed recently for other robberies.