Judge criticises lack of treatment for addicts in Cork jail

A PRISONER facing a long sentence for dealing heroin who carried heroin, cannabis and 180 anti-depressant tablets into prison inside his body was given an additional year in jail yesterday.

The judge said it was regrettable Cork Prison did not have a methadone treatment programme for addicts serving sentences.

Defence barrister Ronan Barnes said desperation drove Timothy O’Shea of Lakelands Crescent, Mahon, Cork, to carry €3,700 worth of heroin weighing 28 grammes, more than €500 worth of cannabis resin and Diazepam tablets.