Judge hands down five years to teen for storing heroin

A teenager who stored heroin valued €314,000 in the family sitting room, because he feared a vicious criminal, has been given five years in jail by Judge Frank O’Donnell at the Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

James Walsh (aged 18) of Cherry Orchard Parade, Ballyfermot, got into "heavy debt" with the criminal because of "property" he had found belonging to this man.