A WOMAN who was involved in stealing a barrister’s wig and clothes was given a suspended jail sentence at Wicklow Circuit Criminal Court yesterday.
Pamela Gannon (48) Pinewood Grove, Aughrim, but now living at Sea Road, Arklow, received an 18-month suspended sentence after pleading guilty to the theft of the items belonging to senior counsel Fergal Kavanagh on July 21st, 2008.
The court heard she had previously worked as a babysitter for Mr Kavanagh.
Items stolen included a leather suit bag, court suit, silk court gown, wig, a satellite navigation system and a fountain pen.
The court heard that the 25-year-old mother of one was the look-out and driver as her then partner David Byrne, who received a six-month sentence in the District Court, took the leather suit bag from Mr Kavanagh’s car which was parked in the stable yard at the back of his home at Lakeview Stud, Killacloran, Aughrim.
Garda Donal Maloney told the court that the leather suit bag was the only item recovered and the other items were dumped or burned. The value of the leather suit bag was €1,500 while the value of all items taken was €8,010.
Judge Michael O’Shea described it as a particularly mean and opportunistic theft.