A prolific criminal with a huge number of previous convictions found a bike locked to railings that he wanted to rob in Dublin. When he couldn't prise the locked bike away, that didn't stop him. He simply made off with the mountain bike with a section of railings still chained to it. He was seen by gardai walking through the centre of Dublin and stopped.
A Dublin man who has almost 200 convictions, many of them for shoplifting, was caught with a stolen bike in very unusual circumstances, a court has been told.
Thomas O'Driscoll (35), Gloucester Diamond Park, Dublin, was spotted by gardai carrying the bike still chained to a section of railing.
He admitted he had stolen the mountain bike. However, its owner has never been located.
The incident dates back to August of last year. At the time O'Driscoll was on bail for a number of crimes.
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These included stealing clothes worth €1,300 from the Urban Outfitters shop in Dublin last July.
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He was also caught with a stolen coat two days before being stopped with the stolen mountain bike on a central Dublin street,
He was once again granted bail after he was caught with the bike and became involved in further crimes.
Four weeks later he walked into the reception of a holiday apartment letting company in Dublin’s south inner city and left with a tourist’s suitcase.
He has now been jailed for 2½ years for all of the offences. The court was told he had a troubled life.
He had witnessed his own father being killed and became addicted to crack cocaine.
Furthermore, he had suffered gunshot wounds in a pub shooting some years ago.
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