Dad helped stop son's robbery bid; COURTS.A TRAINEE landscape gardener whose own father told the local priest to call the gardai after his son burgled the presbytery presbytery (prĕz`bĭtĕr'ē, prĕs`–), in architecture, the space in the eastern end of a church reserved for the higher clergy. It was also known in the early Christian Church as the apse, tribune, or exedra. was given a two-year suspended sentence A sentence given after the formal conviction of a crime that the convicted person is not required to serve. In criminal cases a trial judge has the ability to suspend the sentence of a convicted person. yesterday. Sean Taylor, 22, was followed to the house by his father who heard him leaving their home. The man then held his son to the ground outside the presbytery but later let him go. He waited until the priest came out and told him to call the gardai. Taylor, with an address at Orchard House, Oldtown, Dublin, pleaded guilty at the Circuit Criminal Court to burglary and criminal damage on July 17 last year. Judge Katherine Delahunt was told the accused had since tried to stabilise his life. |
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