Drugs courier jailed for five years

A diabetic who used her nine-year-old daughter to disguise her role in a €3.5m heroin and 'ecstasy' operation has been jailed for five years by Judge Des Hogan.

Ashley Dawson was arrested, along with another man, on the Lucan by-pass with 10.5 kilos of heroin and 83,000 'ecstasy tablets in the boot of her car. The man had been travelling in front of her in a white Transit van.