2025-03-12
Vulnerable woman 'targeted directed and controlled' in 'cruel' city centre theft
Stage: Sentence
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: He also asked the court to take into consideration Iosca's guilty plea to the false imprisonment charge, while acknowledging that his client took a bench warrant and was later extradited back to Ireland from Germany on a European arrest warrant. "We Irish think we live in civilised society, but one burden of any court system is to protect the vulnerable," Judge Martin Nolan said in imposing sentence today. Having considered Iosca's personal circumstances and the mitigation, Judge Nolan handed him a four-year prison sentence, backdated to October 9 last when he went into custody.