He carried out the raids to gather money to travel to America
A former HSE home care assistant who made knifepoint death threats during post office raids he carried out in order to raise money to visit his fiancée in the US has been jailed for four years.
Det Garda Motherway said that Tindley had obtained loans of €27,000 from the credit union and €10,000 from An Post. He also borrowed €3,000 from the widow of a man whom he had taken care of in the course of his work. He said that it was alleged that he also received €4000 from another pensioner whom he had attended on during the course of his work.
He told the court that at lunchtime on November 11 th , 2022 Tindley went in to the South Douglas Road post office. He put a knife to the neck of a customer in his seventies, who feared he was going to be cut, and demanded “all the money” from the postmistress. A sum of €2,380 was stolen from the post office that day.
Mr Tindley was also identified from CCTV whilst the knife used in the robberies was found under the driver’s seat of his vehicle. A hat was also recovered from the car which contained the DNA of Mr Tindley. Ms O’Connell conceded that the crimes committed by Tindley were “indefensible” and “traumatic and frightening” for the victims in the case.
Judge Daly said that two people impacted by the offences were out of work from the trauma whilst others had experienced anxiety and suffering arising out of the incident.
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