2019-03-25
Man (21) has not come to garda attention since 2015 cocaine bust
Stage: Sentence
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: He was very vulnerable," Judge Greally said, after she accepted that Craig had now stabilised and was hoping to get into a training programme. "The Probation Service put him at a very low risk of re-offending", the judge continued, before she added that Craig's circumstances "puts the case into the very narrow category of a fully suspended sentence". At the earlier sentence hearing, the court heard that Craig told gardaí in interview that he had been given the drugs minutes before he was caught with them.