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Elderly Cork couple informed of alleged planned robbery at their home in Operation Evening Mass , court hears
Prosecution barrister Donal O’Sullivan read into evidence statements by the elderly couple, with the consent of defence senior counsel Ciarán O’Loughlin.
Liam Heylin
AN elderly couple planning to attend evening mass were informed of a plan to ‘rob’ their house when they were out and they gave permission to have six officers in the house to catch them in an investigation called Operation Evening Mass.
That was the evidence of the couple, who have been married for 43 years, which was presented to Judge Seán Ó Donnabháin and a jury of seven men and five women at Cork Circuit Criminal Court.
A former crèche worker who admitted distributing child pornography videos she received in a WhatsApp group has been sentenced to nine months in prison.
A FORMER childcare worker was jailed for nine months for distributing vile child abuse images including a video involving the abuse of a small baby.
Cork District Court heard that gardaí were alerted to the offensive images forwarded by grandmother and mother-of-four Evelyn Ajie (51) by the National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) and IT giants Google.
Ajie - of Clifton Terrace, Summerhill North Cork and formerly from Nigeria - received the images as part of a WhatsApp group with members across Europe and Africa including Italy, Spain and Nigeria.
She pleaded guilty to three charges before Judge Olann Kelleher at Cork District Court.