Tyreece O’Farrell had just turned 15 when he embarked on six month bicycle theft spree
Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard that the bicycles ranged in value from €500 to €2,500 and included models such as Giant and Trek. Photograph: Tom Honan/The Irish TimesA teenager who stole 24 bicycles from apartment blocks in Dublin 4 has been sentenced to three years in prison, with the final 16 months suspended.
Judge Martin Nolan said it was a considerable number of thefts and that if O’Farrell had been older, he would have received a considerably longer sentence.‘The isolation of Australia hit me when my son was born ...the loneliness engulfed me’ Garda Anthony Moran told Fiona McGowan, prosecuting, that the bicycles had all been locked in underground car parks or at the outdoor areas of apartment buildings in the Ballsbridge area.
CCTV footage of the incident was played in court, showing several people attacking cars and passengers, with a co-accused throwing wall cladding through a car window. Garda Moran agreed with Alison Fox, defending, that O’Farrell was not the instigator of the violent disorder, nor had he thrown the wall cladding that caused the serious brain injury.
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