Tomasz Witkowski and Mariusz Sowa jailed for €1.3m cannabis

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Tomasz Witkowski and Mariusz Sowa were resentenced to six years for possessing cannabis for sale or supply by the Court of Appeal on 16 January 2020. The drugs, worth €1.3 million, were found at a house on Tullow Road, Co Carlow.

The Polish nationals had pleaded guilty and received two-and-a-half-year sentences in 2019. The court found those sentences unduly lenient, noting 65kg of cannabis, €21,000 in cash and evidence that the men were significantly involved in distributing the drugs throughout Ireland. Their guilty pleas and lack of previous convictions were treated as mitigating factors.