Image: Laura Hutton via RollingNews.ie Image: Laura Hutton via RollingNews.ie A CRACK COCAINE addict who robbed a taxi driver after threatening him with a pointed weapon while an accomplice wrapped a rope around the victim’s neck has been sentenced to seven and half years.
Judge Melanie Greally said Cully’s crimes were a “spree of severe offences committed at a very high level” in order to get money to feed his crack cocaine addiction. Cully, of no fixed abode, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to robbery of the taxi driver on Railway Street, Dublin, attempted robbery and possession of a knife at Spar on O’Connell Street Upper, robbery of Londis on O’Connell Street Upper and robbery of Fresh on Mayor Street, Dublin on dates between 4 and 29 September 2018.
The backseat passenger then reached forward and put a rope around the man’s neck but the victim managed to get his finger in between the rope and his neck to prevent himself being choked. Garda Moran said Cully still had the weapon with him, which was a cuticle remover, a type of file with a sharp point.In a subsequent garda interview Cully said he was “so sorry” and described it as “a moment of madness” because he had been taking crack cocaine.