Suspended sentence for addict who stored €7,000 worth of cocaine

A Dublin cocaine addict who had a €600 a week habit has been given a suspended sentence for storing over €7,000 worth of the drug.

24-year-old Brian Kenny of St. Johns Drive, Clondalkin told Gardaí he had bought the drug “on tick”(meaning he hadn’t yet paid the dealer), and was planning to snort some of it and sell the rest.

Kenny pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to storing the drugs in the bedroom of his family home on December 7, 2007.