A man who collected over €300,000 from a bank employee who believed there had been a kidnapping has been jailed for four years.
Tony Quinn, 30, from Park View, Park Close in Ballymun, was arrested in September 2009 as he was running along a railway line with a bag containing €318,000 from the Permanent TSB in Phibsboro.
Quinn along with the victim's partner and a qualified solicitor was one of four men arrested in connection with the theft.
Afterwards the victim said the sentence was not long enough.
Quinn was part of a gang of four that tried to steal €400,000 from the Permanent TSB in Phibsboro.
They sent one of the staff a picture on her phone of her partner with a gun to his head.
She managed to get €318,000 in cash to throw over a wall onto waste ground near the Dublin-Sligo railway line where Quinn was waiting.
He grabbed the bag and ran about a mile along the track for road, but detectives from Mountjoy arrested him as he got to Broombridge Station, a few yards from where his van was parked.
Judge Martin Nolan described the theft as an insidious crime and that even though Quinn may be reformed and rehabilitated and may never commit another crime again, a custodial sentence was warranted.
He sentenced him to four years in prison.
