A cocaine addict with a history of serious drug offences has been jailed for 12 years for possessing €1m worth of heroin in a car at the M50 Toll Plaza outside Dublin.

A Kildare truck driver who transported heroin valued at €1m has been jailed for seven years by Judge Patrick McCartan.

A gang who brutally battered an Estonian man to death as they hijacked his car may have struck before, it was revealed today.