2015-12-21
Suspended sentence for Dublin father caught with over 15,000 prescription tablets
Stage: Sentence
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: Judge Martin Nolan had revoked Kinsella's bail last week and remanded him in custody pending sentence today. The judge said Kinsella was not a chemist and didn't have prescriptions for the drugs but he said he was a young man with prospects. "I have decided not to imprison him immediately due to his admissions, co-operation with the gardaí and hopes for rehabilitation," Judge Nolan said, before he sentenced Kinsella to three years in prison which he suspended on strict conditions.; Judge Martin Nolan had revoked Kinsella's bail last week and remanded him in custody pending sentence today.