Actor ‘must complete’ community service

An actor in the RTÉ crime drama Love/Hate actor must finish community service work before he can be considered for the same sanction for storing €2,500 worth of cannabis, a court heard.

Dublin District Court was told Leroy Harris, aged 21, was given an “ultimatum” and pressured into storing cannabis to repay a drug debt. Harris, who had a recurring role in the hit RTÉ show, has pleaded guilty to unlawful possession of cannabis at an address on Rutland St, Dublin 1, on October 8, 2012, and having the drug for the purpose of sale or supply to another on the same date.

Judge Anthony Halpin noted that in an earlier case, last year, Harris was ordered to carry out 150 hours of community service in lieu of a six-month sentence for cannabis possession.