A drug dealer and addict caught with heroin and cocaine valued at €55,000 nine years ago has been spared jail because he is dying.

A man who held cocaine valued at more than €250,000 in his disabled mother’s home because he owed €5,000 to a criminal drugs lord has had his sentence adjourned for a year by Judge Katherine Delahunt.

A Dublin man who had cocaine valued at over €25,000 hidden in his bedroom in the home he shares with his disabled mother will be sentenced later by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.