Three teenagers have been jailed for an aggravated burglary during which threats were made to rape a woman and cut off her son’s fingers.
They broke down the front door of the her Dublin home after learning she had €30,000 in cash hidden inside.
18-year-old Liam Fox of Rossfield Park, Tallaght was one of five young men who broke into the woman’s home on November 11th 2014.
Her 10-year-old son was also in the house and the court heard they were both terrified during the 25 minute ordeal that only ended when she showed them where she’d hidden €30,000 in cash takings from a restaurant.
Two of the others were also sentenced today but they can’t be identified because of their age.
The court heard an unidentified raider threatened to rape the woman in front of her son. A threat to cut off her son’s fingers with a meat cleaver was also made.
Fox was jailed for four and a half years today. The same sentence was handed down to one of others, while the other co-accused was sentenced to five years in detention.
