Family man 'could not be involved' in drug crime, court hears

The lawyer defending one of the men in Ireland’s biggest ever drugs case said today it was absurd to think that a brick-layer and family man from England could be involved in a drug crime on the scale that one would associate with the notorious Colombian drug baron Pablo Escobar.

Blaise O’Carroll, senior counsel, said the prosecution alluded to the idea that the law did not like coincidences, but he said on behalf of Joseph Daly - aged 41, from 9 Carisbrook Avenue, Bexley, Kent - at Cork Circuit Criminal Court, “coincidences do happen.”