2022-02-11
Growhouse 'manager' fails in bid to have 4-year jail term reduced
Stage: Appeal
Outcome: Danius Gastilavicius (44), of no fixed abode, was jailed for five years, with the last year suspended, after pleading guilty to cultivating cannabis plants, at an address in Ballymote, Co Sligo, on March 26, 2020. His teenage co-accused, described in court as the "gardener" and who was working at the grow-house to pay off a debt in his native Lithuania, was jailed for three years with the last 20 months suspended by Judge Francis Comerford at Sligo Circuit Criminal Court in December 2020.