Drug addict is jailed for robbery

A drug addict, extradited from Holland after serving three years of a six-year sentence there, has been jailed for seven years…

A drug addict, extradited from Holland after serving three years of a six-year sentence there, has been jailed for seven years by Judge Elizabeth Dunne at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

James Boland (37), of North Summer Street, Dublin, who absconded to Holland in 1995, was jailed by Judge Dunne for preying on elderly women and robbing them.

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