Drug baron found dead in mother's home

ONE of the country's biggest drug dealers has died of a suspected heart attack. However, the authorities are awaiting toxicology results to establish if it might have been sparked by an overdose.

Edward "Judd" Scanlon, who was a was a leading member of a gang that imported millions of euro worth of drugs into the country every year, was found dead at his mother's home in a Cork suburb on Wednesday night.

The body of the 56-year-old, who had a 22-year sentence for possession of heroin and cocaine quashed, last August, by the Court of Criminal Appeal, was discovered at a house at Laburnum Drive, Bishopstown.