Gardai are appealing to the public to report bogus callers after a woman in her 70s was duped into buying high powered machinery and tools that she did not need.
Brothers,Thomas and Patrick O’Driscoll from Rathkeale in County Limerick pleaded guilty to deception at Goleen in November 2018.
They followed the woman to her home in a remote location and filled her sitting room with chainsaws, power washers, generators and knives.
They made her write out six cheques totalling 25 thousand euro ,two of these worth 6,500 were cashed in.
They were jailed for two years at Cork Circuit Criminal Court.
Speaking afterwards, Superintendent Ronan Kennelly made this appeal
Public advised to report bogus callers to Gardai. Supt Ronan Kennelly of Bantry Garda Station made the appeal outside Cork Circuit Criminal Court where two brothers were jailed for two years for deceiving an elderly woman into buying machinery and tools pic.twitter.com/oMdahrN5bu
— Fiona Corcoran (@fiona96fmnews) November 3, 2020
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