Winne Cash jailed for stealing pensioner's handbag

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Winne Cash was sentenced to four years, with the final year suspended, for stealing a handbag and trespassing at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, reported on 23 June 2016. The offences happened at Main Street, Baldoyle, on 23 November 2015.

The court heard Cash targeted a 73-year-old woman using a walking frame after she got off a bus. Cash, of Blessington Road, Tallaght, pleaded guilty and had 234 previous convictions, including 165 road-traffic offences.