Iancu Nicola sentenced for robbery of €23,000 casino winner

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Iancu Nicola was sentenced to four and a half years, with the final 18 months suspended, at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, reported on 1 November 2022.

He had pleaded guilty to robbing a 73-year-old woman outside her home in Templeogue after she won €23,000 at a city centre casino. Nicola absconded the day after the robbery and was arrested in Romania five years later, before being returned to Ireland in October 2021.