Ann Mooney
Updated: 22 Apr 2021, 19:55
A GETAWAY driver for a burglary gang that brought “terror” as they preyed on elderly and vulnerable people was jailed today for 12 years.
John Faulkner, of Adelaide Place, St Luke’s, Cork city, claimed he was dropping off his pals to visit friends, but gardai testified that the men who exited his car tried to break into the rural home of a couple in their 80s near Charleville, north Co Cork.
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Judge Sean O’Donnabhain said people like Faulkner had forced pensioners into lockdown long before the pandemic struck
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Getaway driver Faulkner appeared before the Circuit Criminal Court in Cork this weekCredit: Google Streetview