Anthony Naughton given suspended sentence for heroin possession

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Anthony Naughton received a fully suspended six-year sentence for possessing heroin for sale or supply at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, reported on 16 January 2014. The offence involved 917 grammes of heroin found in a van at Steeples Apartment Complex in Chapelizod.

Judge Mary Ellen Ring accepted that Naughton had been acting under intense pressure from dangerous people. The court was told that he had been threatened, assaulted and pressured to hold the drugs, while his parents had also been threatened.

This case may have concluded differently. The outcome has not yet been confirmed by a public source we could find.