Growhouse 'manager' fails in bid to have 4-year jail term reduced

A 44-year-old Lithuanian man has failed in his appeal against a four-year custodial sentence imposed for managing a cannabis cultivation operation in Ballymote, County Sligo. Danius Gastilavicius pleaded guilty to cultivating cannabis plants at the premises on 26 March 2020 and was sentenced to five years' imprisonment with the final year suspended by Judge Francis Comerford at Sligo Circuit Criminal Court in…