Tham Nguyen jailed for cultivating cannabis in Dublin

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Tham Nguyen was jailed for two years and six months for possessing and cultivating cannabis at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court on 18 October 2018. The grow house was in an industrial estate at Belcamp Lane, Coolock, Dublin.

Judge Karen O’Connor said Nguyen’s significant health difficulties, including cancer, justified a shorter sentence than that imposed on his co-accused. She accepted that both men were at the lowest level of the operation and gave credit for their early guilty pleas and cooperation.

Gardaí found €60,000 worth of cultivated cannabis and 2,065 plants at various growth stages. The reported €1.6 million figure was described as theoretical, based on the plants reaching full maturity.