2016-07-25
Lithuanian smuggled cocaine "in return for short holiday"
Stage: Sentence
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: Judge Melanie Greally noted Kerbelis's "good level of co-operation" and said she was able to depart from the presumptive minimum sentence of ten years applicable to this offence. Judge Greally imposed a four and a half year sentence but suspended the final 18 months on condition he leave the country within seven days of his release from prison.