South African national given six-year sentence

A South African national who was stopped by customs officers at Cork Airport and found to have 20 kilos of cannabis grass in his luggage with a street value of €200,000 was today handed a six-year jail sentence was imposed on him.

Judge Patrick J. Moran suspended the last two years of the jail term imposed on Johannes Steenberg (aged 43) of Corsen House, Fisher Street, Durban, South Africa.