David Gill receives concurrent two-year sentence for cannabis offence

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David Gill was sentenced to two years for possessing €5,000 worth of cannabis herb in the State on July 26, 2013. He pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court. The sentence will run concurrently with the seven-year term he was serving for an earlier cannabis offence. The proceedings were reported on January 21, 2016.

Gill admitted that his fingerprints were on a bag of cannabis seized during a Tipperary drugs operation, but said he had no connection to the people involved. Sergeant David Buckley confirmed that Gill had nothing to do with the targets of the operation. Buckley said the package would have passed through Gill’s hands while he was transporting drugs in Dublin. Judge Melanie Greally acknowledged his education courses and charity work in prison before imposing the concurrent sentence.