Woman pleads guilty to slipping drugs to prisoner

ECSTASY tablets and cannabis were slipped to a prisoner as he was being escorted from a courtroom to a holding cell at Cork District Court, but gardaí observed the transaction and yesterday the woman who passed the drugs admitted the crime.

Edel Coffey, 25, was seen passing €280 worth of illegal drugs to a prisoner on December 7 last year as he was being brought from the courtroom to the holding cell at the courthouse on Anglesea Street.

“She placed three items into the pocket of the prisoner. Gardaí who were on prison escort duty observed this and took possession of the items,” Inspector Pat Lehane told Judge Con O’Leary yesterday.