12 years for carrying almost €3m of ecstasy

A 25-year-old man has been given a 12-year sentence by Judge Frank O’Donnell at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for transporting ecstasy with an estimated €2.6m street value.

Jonathan Ducque, aged 25, of Bayview Avenue, Ballybough, was also given a seven-year sentence to run concurrently for armed robbery on a house, which Judge O’Donnell described as being reminiscent of a "Gestapo dawn raid".