Teenage prison drug smuggler given one-year sentence

A Dublin teenager, who became the first person in the State to be charged with a newly designated offence for smuggling drugs into a prison, has been given a one-year sentence.

The teenage boy (aged 18) had pleaded guilty at the Dublin Children’s Court to possession of the diazepam tablets in the vicinity of St Patrick’s Institution with intent to commit an offence contrary to section 15 C of the Misuse of Drugs Act, at Royal Canal Bank, in Phibsborough, Dublin, on August 23 last. He was aged 17, a juvenile, when the offence occurred.