2017-01-13
Edible insects businessman jailed over professional shoplifting scheme
Stage: Sentence
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: Judge Cormac Quinn imposed a sentence of two years. He said he saved the money from this to set up his first business but that he was "a person who is totally incapable of handling money." Counsel said Van Wilderoden had bought a plane ticket back to the Netherlands and if he was given a suspended sentence he was willing to promise not to return to Ireland.