Patrick McCrossan jailed at Derry Magistrates’t court today for four months
A DISGRACED former auxillary nurse has been jailed in Derry today for stealing a charity box belonging to the NI children’s hospice.
Crooked Patrick McCrossan, 41, of Bonds Hill in was handed down a four month jail term at the city’s magistrates’ court.
He pleaded guilty to theft, attempted theft of cash from a female and assault on a police officer.
The offences were committed on June 2, last year.
Jailing McCrossan for four months today at a sentencing hearing, a district judge described his offending as “absolutely outrageous”.
The jailing of McCrossan for stealing the children’s hospice charity box comes a day after a Derry woman was sent to prison for nine months for stealing £11,000 from elderly patients.
Shame-faced Danille McDermott, 25, (pictured below) had initially denied stealing the money.
But earlier this week she pleaded guilty to stealing the cash which she blew on funding a lavish lifestyle.
She also confessed to converting criminal property and fraud by false representation.
Jailing her Judge Philip Babington said her offences were “very serious, mean and nasty”.
The court heard the money was used for a variety of purposes such as shopping, car insurance, heating oil, hotels and the paying off of at least one loan.
The defendant also used it to fly to the Isle of Man where her boyfriend was working.
The entire sum was spent on the defendant and her boyfriend, who knew nothing of its source.
Her new address in Belfast was banned by a court order as her partner was under a “death threat”.
None of the money has been recovered.
Disgraced Danielle McDermott jailed yesterday for nine months for stealing £11,000 from an elderly couple to fund a lavish lifestyle