Sandra McCann receives suspended sentence for stealing scratch cards

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Sandra McCann was given a one-year sentence, suspended in full, after pleading guilty to stealing National Lottery scratch cards from her employer. The court ordered her to pay €1,000 to her former employer as a condition of the suspended sentence.

The cards were valued at €4,330 if properly sold. The court heard that McCann gave them to her husband, who had dementia, because he enjoyed receiving them; he has since died. Judge Martin Nolan accepted that she appeared to have given the cards to comfort him.