Storing cannabis worth €12m earns courier eight years in jail

A COURIER who delivered and stored a massive quantity of cannabis worth approximately €12 million has been jailed for eight years by Judge Desmond Hogan.

David Dempsey, aged 33, was arrested in Coolock with 500kg of the drug stored in cardboard boxes in the back of his Ford Transit van after he had travelled from the Poitin Stil pub in Rathcoole.

A subsequent search of Dempsey’s home revealed a number of holdall bags stored in his attic and one on his bed containing quantities of cannabis resin. The total quantity of cannabis resin seized was 930kg and this had a market value of approximately €12 million.