Man gets 7 years for having heroin

A man who was found to have heroin worth £50,000 has been jailed for seven years by Judge Elizabeth Dunne at Dublin Circuit Criminal…

A man who was found to have heroin worth £50,000 has been jailed for seven years by Judge Elizabeth Dunne at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Karl Dempsey (22), of Hermitage Glens, Kells, Co Meath, and originally from Stanaway Road, Crumlin, pleaded guilty to unlawful possession of heroin with intent to supply on October 2nd, 1998.

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