A 39-year-old mother of three has been jailed for a year for stealing six designer jackets worth more than €12,500 from Brown Thomas in the run-up to Christmas 2024.
Her daughter was given a suspended sentence for the offence, which also involved three other people.
Cathriona Joyce and Caitlin Joyce (21) of St Brigid’s Lawn, Porterstown in Dublin were before Dublin Circuit Criminal Court on Thursday, where they pleaded guilty to stealing the jackets worth €12,615 from the department store on December 14th, 2024.
Garda Shane Quinn told the court the two women were seen on CCTV acting suspiciously on the same day the jackets went missing.
He said three females and two males entered, loitered, and were surveilled. The females put the designer jackets under their own jackets and walked out of the door, while the males carried the other jackets out under their arms.
