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A man who embezzled €14,000 by fraud and menaces from a couple, leading them to wind up their business and postpone their wedding, was jailed for two years in the Circuit Court in Athlone this week (May 18).

A man jailed in December for six months and disqualified from driving for 10 years for supposedly driving at a squad car, had his ban lifted and his sentence postponed until July, after an appeal judge accepted this week (May 18) he “didn’t drive at the officers”.

A convicted gun smuggler, described as “feral” in court, was sent to jail for five years this week (May 18) for his part in running a cocaine packing factory in a residential estate in Athlone.

“I think I may well be on my own,” solicitor Patricia Cronin told Mullingar District Court, when her client who faces serious drugs charges was not in court.

“My experience over the years tells me that these people find it very difficult to forget the past,” said Judge John Neilan as he sentenced a man to five months imprisonment for an incident relating to the Dalton Park riot.

Despite promises of work and AA attendance, an inveterate drunk with 150 previous convictions was returned to prison to serve out a District Court sentence after his appeal was turned down in the Circuit Court at its most recent sitting in Athlone (February 23).

A man charged with robbing two local shops with a screwdriver was told this week (February 3) the District Court was refusing jurisdiction and he would have to face trial in the Circuit Court.

Two teenagers were given prison sentences this week for their part in a feud-related assault on a family house in Meadowbrook last January which saw a number of windows broken and petrol bombs used in the vicinity.

A man who breached a four-year suspended sentence received another four-year suspended sentence at Carlow Circuit Court this week.

Described as being “at large” for two years, a defendant was told that his lack of cooperation with the probation service meant a remand back to custody until the next sitting of Carlow Circuit Court.