2025-12-19
Repeat offender jailed for getting into homeowner's car, swallowing crack cocaine
Stage: Sentence
Plea: Not guilty
Finding: Convicted
Outcome: Convicted; Thomas Joyce (45), with an address at Lower Grand Canal Street, Dublin 2, was sentenced to six weeks in prison at Dún Laoghaire District Court after pleading not guilty to entering a car parked at a private residence on Anglesea Road, Dublin 4. Defence counsel, Silvia Maria Crowley BL, outlined a long history of addiction and personal tragedy affecting her client and asked the court to impose a lenient custodial sentence, saying that Joyce was currently engaging with treatment services.