Man tells court of drug dealer threats

A Ballyfermot man whose "life spiralled out of control" when a boy was killed after falling off the back of his truck faces sentence after €132,000 worth of heroin was found in a ’Moses basket’ in his home.

John Ward (aged 27) of Cedarbrook Walk was so distraught by the child’s death, though it was not his fault, that he started abusing heroin and built up a €4,500 debt to a criminal dealer who forced him to hold the heroin for him or he would "pay with his life".