A Dublin man who served part of a nine-year sentence has been cleared of any involvement in an attempted post office robbery in 1997. Mr Anthony Jenkinson (27), of Kilbarrack, walked free from Dublin Circuit Criminal Court when the State entered a nolle prosequi. Mr Jenkinson was sentenced in February 1999 after being found guilty by a jury of falsely imprisoning a security guard, burglary and causing criminal damage at Kilbarrack Shopping Centre on March 22nd, 1997.
The Court of Criminal Appeal quashed that conviction and sentence and ordered a retrial, due to start yesterday.