2022-02-11
'Mercy plea' over €2.5m cocaine importation falls short
Stage: Appeal
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: Dmitrijs Venskovics (45), with a Latvian address, was jailed for eight years after he pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to having the 36Kg of cocaine for sale or supply on April 24, 2020 at Maxol service station at Stafffordstown, Donabate, Co Dublin. He later appealed the severity of the sentence imposed by Judge Martin Nolan in Nolan in November 2020.