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TWO Polish brothers were caught “red-handed” stealing almost €4,000 worth of cosmetics in the duty free shop at Shannon Airport last week, it has been alleged in court.
Before Shannon District Court last Thursday arising out of an alleged in- cident earlier that day were Thomaz (25) and Bartosz (24) Lagan.
They are accused of stealing as- sorted cosmetics, valued at €3,887, the property of the Irish Aviation Authority, at the airport duty free sy aTe) oy
The court was told that the broth- ers arrived in Shannon, for one day and had intended to return home.
Inspector Michael Gallagher said the case was “very serious” and he applied to the court to remand the duo in custody for a week.
‘They are living outside the juris- diction. They just flew in yesterday. They have no address within the ju- risdiction,” he said.
He said there was a fear that if granted bail, the two defendants would not face the charge.
“By their own admission they ar- rived in Ireland yesterday and were due to leave this morning. They were caught red-handed,” he said.
He said that CCTV evidence relat-
ing to the case would be available from the airport authorities.
Judge Joseph Mangan said, “We will take it in future when an appli- cation like that is made (to remand in custody), one of the questions I will be asking is, ‘Were the defend- ants caught red-handed? Were they caught in the act?’”
The judge remanded the two in custody, to appear again in court later this week.