Directions awaited from DPP over alleged Cork robbery case 

Shandon St robbery case adjourned to July

DPP directions are still awaited in a case involving a woman charged with robbery on Shandon St in January, where it is alleged that a couple returning home from socialising in Cork city were accosted.

The case against 33-year-old Patricia Hogan was before Cork District Court where Sergeant John Kelleher said that no directions were yet available from the Director of Public Prosecutions.

Judge Mary Dorgan adjourned the case until July 16 for DPP directions or for a progress report explaining the delay if no directions are available.

Patricia Hogan, of 60 Liffey Park, Mayfield, Cork, was charged by Detective Garda Elaine Murphy with robbery of a man of a handbag containing an iPhone 13, iPad, make-up bag, car keys, and other items worth a total of €1,475. She was also charged with attempted robbery of a woman on the same occasion.

Shortly after the crime was reported in January, a man was arrested and brought before Cork District Court on the related charges.

Det Gda Elaine Murphy previously alleged that at around midnight on January 7, a man and a woman were walking down Shandon St, Cork, when they were accosted by a man and two women.

CCTV was harvested in the course of the investigation and a man was observed punching the injured man a number of times in the head, and later going through a handbag that was taken during the incident.

The detective said the injured party first slipped on ice and soon afterwards was set upon by the man and two women, and that this was all captured on CCTV.