Man jailed for heroin he 'found' in garden

A 30-year-old man who told gardaí that he found heroin valued at €31,000 in his back garden has been sentenced to ten years by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Man jailed for heroin he  'found' in garden

A 30-year-old man who told gardaí that he found heroin valued at €31,000 in his back garden has been sentenced to ten years by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Judge Katherine Delahunt suspended four years of the sentence saying Darren Shevlin seemed to have been holding the drugs to pay a debt to someone he was in fear of and showed a "lack of understanding" in relation to his crime.

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