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• A Dublin truck driver, arrested as he tried to board a ferry with a container of stolen computer parts, has pleaded guilty to handling stolen property. The Circuit Criminal Court in Dublin remanded John Kelly in custody until 18 February for sentencing. Kelly claimed he had been offered £6,000 by a criminal gang to drive the container of stolen components to England, on 28 January 1997. The computer parts, valued at £150,000, had earlier been stolen in Dublin port while en route to Manchester.
Meanwhile, a Former Dublin truck driver has received a Four-year suspended sentence for his part in the armed hijacking of 960 cases of Vodka on 7 February,1995. Eamonn Walsh had used his own credit card to hire two getaway trucks used by the thieves to drive the booze away from the hijacked truck whose driver had been tied up.
A Dublin city-wide ban on overnight HGV street parking has been turned clown by the Department of the Environment. It said it did not have the legal power to impose the ban—even though the four local councils had asked for overnighting trucks to be taken off the streets. Parts were stolen from Dublin port.