2018-05-03
"It's nice to be a hero for a day", judge remarks as he spares "unlucky" drugs mule from jail
Stage: Sentence
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: Josephine Hoey (38) of Banbridge, Co Down, was given a four-year suspended sentence after she was found in possession of heroin worth over €37,000. Passing sentence today, Judge Martin Nolan said Hoey had been transporting drugs from Dublin to the North in a bid to pay off a debt for her own long-standing drug addiction.