CIRCUIT CRIMINAL COURT:A South American man who said he sold everything he owned in order to bring cocaine to Ireland and make money for his family has been jailed for 3½ years.
Gordon Plass (41) was stopped at Dublin Airport and found to have swallowed 55 pellets of cocaine, weighing 556g. It had a market value at the time of €38,920.
Plass had travelled from his native Guyana in South America, via Trinidad and Gatwick airport.
Judge Martin Nolan at the Dublin Circuit Criminal Court said Plass had found himself in a desperate situation.
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He said he could depart from the presumptive minimum sentence of 10 years because of Plass’s plea of guilty and his full admissions to gardaí.
The sentence was backdated to February.