Dutch woman gets three years for firearm possession

A Dutch woman whose partner has been jailed for one of the state’s biggest-ever heroin seizures in Meath in 2006 has been given a three-year sentence for possession of pistol ammunition on the same occasion.

Caroline Van Dongeren (aged 32) of The Lane, Foxlodge Woods, Ratoath was found guilty by a jury at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court following a two-day trial last January of having two magzines containing 20 bullets on June 24, 2006 at her home.