Irishman faces Indian courts after drug arrest

AN IRISHMAN is facing the prospect of spending the next decade in an Indian prison after police arrested him for being in possession of drugs.

The man was stopped on the platform of a train station in the west coast city of Pune, the seventh largest city in India, and found to be carrying a kilogram of hashish, an air pistol, a mobile phone and an Irish passport.

Yesterday the Times of India gave the man’s name as Pfingsten Thomas, 45, who had been living in Goa for two years.