Man jailed for nine years for multiple offences 

By Niamh O’Donoghue 
 
A man who started using drugs at the age of 12 after the death of his brother in a house fire has been jailed for nine years. 

Jason Wosser (24) also known as Jason Bonney of Cromlech Court, Poppintree, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to a number of charges including robbery, attempted robbery and threats to kill or cause serious harm.

Judge Elma Sheahan imposed him a 10-year sentence but suspended the final year of it on strict conditions.

Fiona Pekaar BL, prosecuting, told the court Wosser was being sentenced in relation to three bills.

Wosser robbed two taxi men on two separate occasions.

He threatened a taxi man with a knife and robbed him of €300, two phones and a Revolut card after he had picked him up from Beaumont Hospital and dropped him to Ballymun.

The court heard the taxi man was uninjured.

He got into another taxi in Parnell Square and asked to be brought to Ballymun but he punched the man in the face and stole €320 from him.

The money was never recovered and the injured party declined to make a victim impact statement.

Wosser also kicked a man in the face while he was locking his bike in Smithfield Square.

He also robbed a student of his phone in Merchant’s Arch in Dublin City Centre. He also tried to rob his camera bag.

He has 96 previous convictions.

Wosser’s barrister Ian Woodland BL told the court his client was “ morally reprehensible”  but was “deeply apologetic to all the injured parties”.

He said he suffered from drug addiction from the age of 12 when his brother died tragically in a house fire.

Counsel said his client was “quite a wayward young man” who wouldn’t attend school and was later diagnosed with ADHD and dyslexia.

Counsel said he brought shame upon himself and his family.

He attends the gym every day in prison.

His brother owns a construction company and wants to employ him when he is released but “he is being realistic that he will serve a lengthy custodial sentence,” counsel said.  

Mr Woodland told the court Wosser wished to remain in Wheatfield Prison where he is doing well and remains drug free.

The judge said she noted it but had no discretion over where he is imprisoned.

Judge Sheahan said of his 96 previous convictions two robberies Wosser had committed were of relevance.

She said two of these offences were on “vulnerable young men”.

She said it was “gratuitous violence” which was “unacceptable in any kind of civilised society”, noting that one was going to cinema, and the other was going for food.

One of the men was in his final year in college and suffered from sleep problems and had to borrow money for a new phone.

One injured party was kicked into the face while he was tying up his bike on August 6, 2024 while Wosser was on bail.

The injured party could hardly speak when he went to the gardai station.

On April 3, 2024 Wossey punched a taxi driver in the face, took €300 cash, two phones and a Revolut card.

Judge Sheahan said both taxi drivers were self-employed businessmen and “providing a service to society”.

She said aggravating factors were the seriousness of the offending and its repeated nature, the fact Wosser was on bail and the harm done to injured parties.

Judge Sheahan said the early plea was of obvious value to the victims.

The judge noted the loss of Wosser’s brother at an early age but there were no reports before the court in relation to other matters.

The judge said the court accepted Wosser wanted to seek employment and his brother wants to help him out when he is released.

The judge noted the offences were in the upper mid-range and were carried out in the context of addiction issues.