Drug addict given five-year jail term

A drug addict caught with over €42,000 worth of cannabis, a stun gun, cocaine and ecstasy has been sentenced to five years at…

A drug addict caught with over €42,000 worth of cannabis, a stun gun, cocaine and ecstasy has been sentenced to five years at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Graham Cooper (27), Fassaugh Road, Cabra yesterday said he needed to make money to pay his sick child’s medical bills and to fund his own drug habit.

He pleaded guilty to possession of 6.5kg of cannabis, 33 ecstasy tablets, half a gram of cocaine and the stun gun at his home on November 18th, 2003.

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