Dean Gray jailed for robbery after taxi driver duped

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Dean Gray received a nine-year sentence, with the final three years suspended, at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, reported on 1 March 2019. The robberies included an attack at XL Flintstones in Baldoyle, Dublin, where he used a knife and later tipped the taxi driver who had driven him there.

Gray pleaded guilty to several robberies and related offences committed in Dublin between May 2017 and April 2018. The court heard he had 69 previous convictions, including 21 robberies, and that he had a drug addiction; supervision and treatment conditions were also imposed.