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07/05/2008
Enniskerry Robber Sentenced
A career robber who was arrested by police - who pushed his getaway car into a ditch - has been given a seven-year sentence.
Judge Katherine Delahunt sentenced David Shannon (29) for his part in a Dublin city centre robbery where he was one of two men who tried to raid a Brinks security van as it pulled into The Scalp Service Station at Enniskerry.
However, a garda patrol car arrived in the forecourt and Garda Gerry Tobin then blocked the car with his patrol car and managed to manoeuvre it so that it fell into a ditch, rendering it immobile.
The Brinks van carried a "substantial" amount of money collected from premises earlier and the would-be raiders ran to their stolen BMW getaway car.
However, as Detective Garda Ciaran Murphy told prosecuting counsel, Mr Bernard Condon BL, Shannon and two other men ran from the car into the nearby forest at which point the Garda Helicopter and the Dog Unit were called in to assist in their apprehension.
Det Gda Murphy said Shannon and one accomplice were later spotted by gardaí hiding in undergrowth in the forest.
They lay down and held their hands up as soon as gardaí called out to them. A firearm, rounds of ammunition, a balaclava and gloves were found in the forest.
Shannon pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to attempted robbery and possession of a firearm on October 13, 2005.
He had 43 previous convictions and was on bail at the time of the offence.
(BMcC)
Judge Katherine Delahunt sentenced David Shannon (29) for his part in a Dublin city centre robbery where he was one of two men who tried to raid a Brinks security van as it pulled into The Scalp Service Station at Enniskerry.
However, a garda patrol car arrived in the forecourt and Garda Gerry Tobin then blocked the car with his patrol car and managed to manoeuvre it so that it fell into a ditch, rendering it immobile.
The Brinks van carried a "substantial" amount of money collected from premises earlier and the would-be raiders ran to their stolen BMW getaway car.
However, as Detective Garda Ciaran Murphy told prosecuting counsel, Mr Bernard Condon BL, Shannon and two other men ran from the car into the nearby forest at which point the Garda Helicopter and the Dog Unit were called in to assist in their apprehension.
Det Gda Murphy said Shannon and one accomplice were later spotted by gardaí hiding in undergrowth in the forest.
They lay down and held their hands up as soon as gardaí called out to them. A firearm, rounds of ammunition, a balaclava and gloves were found in the forest.
Shannon pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to attempted robbery and possession of a firearm on October 13, 2005.
He had 43 previous convictions and was on bail at the time of the offence.
(BMcC)
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