2021-12-17
Serial offender with 115 previous burglary convictions before court again
Stage: Sentence
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: The second half of the sentence, imposed for 56 burglaries committed in a 16-month period, was suspended on various conditions. Today Matthews was back before Judge Pauline Codd, who had sentenced him in 2018, after he was picked up for breaking into a house on the Upper Glenageary Road, south Dublin on September 5, 2020.; She adjourned the case to February 21 next year to allow the defence to clarify if there is a place for Matthews on a drug treatment programme.