Overview

• The couple targeted five restaurants, ordering expensive meals and leaving without paying.
• Ann McDonagh also committed multiple shoplifting offenses, adding to their criminal activities.
• Both pleaded guilty to fraud, with Ann receiving a 12-month sentence and Bernard eight months.
• Their actions had a significant financial and emotional impact on local family-run businesses.
• The couple used more than 40 aliases and 18 dates of birth in their fraudulent activities.