andrew@limerickpost.ie
A 20-YEAR-old man has pleaded guilty to the robbery of cash and phones from a prostitute at a Limerick brothel on May 31, 2014.
Iago Dionizio with an address at the Orchards, Charleville, County Cork pleaded guilty to robbing three mobile phones and €300 in cash from a woman at an apartment at Market Place, High Street.
Limerick Circuit Court was told that Dionizio was one of two men who tied up and robbed the woman of the cash and phones which were valued at €1,000.
The defendant, who is a Brazilian national, made no reply when he was formally charged with the offences but last week when he appeared before Judge Tom O’Donnell at Limerick Circuit Court, he admitted the robbery.
He was ordered to engage with the probation services for a report to be compiled before March 15 when he is due to be sentenced.
Judge O’Donnell asked that a Romanian interpreter be in court at the next hearing to assist the victim who has a poor command of the English language.
