2015-02-18
Hungarian lorry driver told six-year sentence for €1.5 million cannabis possession would have been longer had he been Irish
Stage: Sentence
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: He asked that the judge consider suspending the balance of any sentence on the grounds that Bogdan leaves Ireland and never returns. But he said that Bogdan was a mature man at the time he made the decision and it involved a "very serious" amount of drugs. "I cannot avoid a long custodial sentence," Judge Nolan said as he sentenced Bogdan to six years backdated to his arrest. "Normally it would be eight years." "The amount of drugs is very serious and it would have been somewhat higher if he was an Irish national by reason of the circumstances.