Precious Moyo (38) developed ‘intimate’ knowledge of victims’ households, helping her to carry out offences
Precious Moyo developed ‘intimate’ knowledge of victims’ households, helping her to carry out offencesA carer has been jailed for eight years after she preyed on six vulnerable pensioners she previously nursed in the Athlone area, stole €34,000 and carried out a series of violent burglaries.Her accomplice, 20-year-old engineering student Yamen Alhamada, originally from Syria and with an address at Warren Grove, Boyle, Co Roscommon, was imprisoned for six years.
Judge Johnson said the offences were callous, breached the victims’ trust and left them isolated, vulnerable and terrified. He said their crimes damaged the reputation of genuine refugees the vast majority of whom, he said, were law abiding and contributed to Irish society. He added that he did not want people to highlight this case as being indicative of refugees.
In mitigation pleas, the court heard Moyo moved to Ireland five years ago to escape a violent marriage, and isolation from family led to depression and drug addiction, and she “never thought about the victims and what this distorted deviancy would do to them”.
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