Patrick Bell jailed for heroin supply offence

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Patrick Bell was jailed for six and a half years for unlawful possession of heroin for sale or supply at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, reported on 19 July 2022.

Bell, 55, possessed heroin worth an estimated €136,640 in September 2019 and pleaded guilty to the offence.

Judge Martin Nolan placed Bell at the middle-to-higher level of the operation and said his guilty plea allowed the court to depart from the presumptive ten-year sentence.