Dublin woman suspended term for holding cocaine

A tennis club employee has been spared jail for holding onto €26,000 worth of cocaine to repay a drug debt.

Laura Clarke, aged 23, of Belcamp Avenue, Coolock, Dublin, said she was addicted to cocaine and that drug dealers exploded a pipe bomb outside her house two years ago to intimidate her.

Clarke pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to possession of 372g of cocaine for sale or supply on October 7, 2014, at her home where he lived with her mother and her four-year-old son. She has no previous convictions.