Man turned Cork apartment in 'cocaine factory', court hears

A hospital porter turned an apartment into a cocaine factory with a multi-million euro earning potential after meeting an Irishman in Thailand who told him how to go about it – and this evening he was jailed for twelve years.

Kevin Kelly (aged 26), of 69 Hawthorn Mews, Dublin Hill, Cork, had been out on bail awaiting sentence during the Summer but his bail was revoked when he managed to obtain a passport in the name of a man who had died, Detective Sergeant Lar O’Brien said at Cork Circuit Criminal Court.