A ROMANIAN street beggar has won his appeal against a court activating a suspended sentence for obstructing people while begging in Limerick city last year.
20-year-old Vasile Muntean was jailed for obstructing gardai and a public order charge of street begging on December 14 last year.
At Limerick Circuit Court this week, Judge Carroll Moran was told that the Romanian national, with an address in Athlone has a “long list of previous convictions” including theft, burglary, begging and breaches of the public order.
Taking into account the time previously spent in prison earlier this year, he allowed the appeal against the activation of the suspended sentence from May 2013.
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