Ms Ann-Marie Horan:

In terms of the robbery I mentioned, I do not know whether the perpetrators were repeat offenders because they were never caught or identified. I know that the perpetrators of previous robberies were repeat offenders because the police recognised them. For one robbery in my pharmacy a guy entered the premises wearing a balaclava and wielded a knife. He moved towards the controlled drugs safe and as he left he asked to shake everybody's hands in the pharmacy. He wore gloves but he said: "You know, Ann, remember to tell the police that I did not hurt anybody." The police said that the perpetrator was in and out of the prison system, expects to be caught and does not want to get a maximum sentence. I mean the perpetrator understands the categories of crime for which he can be sentenced.