PRISON FOR BURGLARIES AND FRAUD IN CONNEMARA AND HEADFORD

Date Published: 29-Jan-2008

A Welshman was sentenced to eleven months in prison at Galway District Court this week for a spate of offences committed in the Connemara and Headford areas.

49-year-old Don Kasey, a native of Holyhead, Wales, with a rental address at Gardenham, Claregalway, pleaded guilty to burglary at Screebe Lodge, Camus, on December 27 last.

During the burglary 3 thousand euro worth of Champagne and wine was taken

He also pleaded guilty to causing €300 worth of damage to a door at the building during the break-in.

Kasey pleaded guilty to fraudulently producing two bank slips, which he tendered as cheques when picking up takeaways from the Jade Garden Chinese Takeaway, High Street, Headford, on two occasions.

Inspector Sean Glynn said Kasey attempted to leave Kyne’s supermarket in Moycullen on September 15 last without paying for €300 worth of groceries and drink and the accused pleaded guilty to that offence also.

He pleaded guilty as well to handling a laptop taken by others from a kitchen shop in Moycullen on the same date.

He further pleaded guilty to driving off without paying for €60 worth of petrol from Monaghan’s Garage, Tuam Road, on September 6 last

Judge Mary Fahy sentenced Don Kasey to a total of 11 months in prison for all of the offences.