2026-07-15
Serial burglar jailed for stealing from restaurant lockers
Stage: Sentence
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard O'Brien received a ten-year sentence with the final two years suspended in 2017 for the burglary, assault and false imprisonment of an elderly woman in 2015. Judge Sheahan set a headline sentence of five years and taking into account the "significant" mitigation imposed a three year sentence suspending the final six months.