Gerard Donnelly jailed for importing €2.2m cannabis

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Gerard Donnelly was sentenced to eight-and-a-half years for importing cannabis at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, reported on 14 May 2021.

The offence occurred at Dublin Port on 27 September 2017, after customs found 342kg of herbal cannabis and 8kg of cannabis resin worth €2,216,800 in his trailer. Donnelly pleaded guilty and was accepted by the judge to have acted as a courier. His sentence was backdated to 1 March, when he first went into custody.