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21-year-old avoids jail for stashing drugs in family home
Summary
Brandon Giltrap, 21, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to possession for sale or supply of cocaine (estimated €16,000 street value) and heroin (worth €1,633), and to possession of €8,039 proceeds of crime under the Money Laundering Act 2010. The charges followed a Garda search of his family home in Clondalkin on 8 November 2018, where investigators found the drugs, €19,000 in cash, weighing scales, mixing agents and bagging material. Giltrap had no prior convictions. In court, his defence counsel, Anne Rowland SC, explained that the death of his mother when he was 12 had left him with a drug debt that his father later cleared. Judge Pauline Codd set a headline sentence of six years, then suspended a prison term of four and a half years on the condition that Giltrap engage with Probation Services for that period.
Who, what, where, when and why
What: Report matter: 21-year-old avoids jail for stashing drugs in family home. Charges or matters: possession for sale or supply of cocaine with an estimated street value of €16,000; the possession of €8,039 which was the proceeds of crime, under the Money Laundering Act 2010. Procedural stage: sentence
When:
- November 8, 2018 Incident
- 2020-06-23 Publication
Why: Judge Pauline Codd said there had to be a clear message of deterrence for drug dealing "because of the evils caused" by drugs in the community. CNI source report
Case subjects
Defendant
Charges: possession for sale or supply of cocaine with an estimated street value of €16,000; the possession of €8,039 which was the proceeds of crime, under the Money Laundering Act 2010 (Admitted)
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: Judge Codd set a headline sentence of six years before taking any mitigating factors into consideration.
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