Dublin man who carried out 13 hotel robberies, fled to UK where he broke into the film business, had six kids and became school governor

Darren White who pleaded guilty to 13 counts of robbery at Dublin hotels back in 2005 and 1 count of robbery at a Londis shop in 2006

A hotel robber who carried out robberies at 13 different establishments before going on the run for almost 20 years said he should have handed himself in years ago but it got “harder and harder” after he started a family.

Dubliner Darren White (49) told the Crime World that he knows he got “a huge, huge, break” when he was handed a 10-year suspended sentence at Dublin Circuit Court this week, after Judge Martina Baxter cited the breadth of his rehabilitation.