2016-02-24
Customer smashed Yankee candle over salon robber's head, gave chase
Stage: Sentence
Plea: Guilty
Finding: Convicted
Outcome: Convicted; Gerard Halpin (40) was jailed for six and a half years at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for the robbery and for breaking into a house and telling the occupant not to scream or he'd kill her. Both sentences are to run consecutively as Halpin was on bail during the robbery.