2019-11-12
Judge "sympathetic" to Bolivian woman who swallowed more than 1.3kgs of cocaine
Stage: Sentence
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: Handing down sentence, Judge Martin Nolan accepted Suarez had ingested the drugs in return for €2,000 cash. "Due to her poverty at the time, she involved herself in this crime out of desperation," he said. Judge Nolan said if the circumstances of the case had been different, he would have imposed a four or five year sentence.