2024-03-05
Canadian jailed for smuggling €597k in cannabis
Stage: Sentence
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: Judge Martin Nolan said Romel Bullock had control of the bags and had been asked to transport them for "a certain reward". "He knew there were illicit substances in the luggage or he was at least highly reckless as to the presence of drugs," the judge said before he accepted that otherwise Romel Bullock has "many good characteristics". "He is a mature man who took a risk and the court cannot condone that," Judge Nolan said before he jailed him for five years, backdated to when he was first remanded in custody last July.; Judge Martin Nolan said Romel Bullock had control of the bags and had been asked to transport them for "a certain reward". "He knew there were illicit substances in the luggage or he was at least highly reckless as to the presence of drugs," the judge said before he accepted that otherwise Romel Bullock has "many good characteristics". "He is a mature man who took a risk and the court cannot condo