Addict asks judge to allow him join father in Mountjoy

A pair of drug addicts who robbed two friends at knife point while posing as undercover gardai have been jailed by Judge Katherine Delahunt at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Addict asks judge to allow him join father in Mountjoy

A pair of drug addicts who robbed two friends at knifepoint while posing as undercover gardaí have been jailed by Judge Katherine Delahunt at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court today.

Dillon Murphy (aged 21), whose father is serving a life sentence for murder, wept as he was given a two-year sentence with a year suspended and pleaded: "Can I go to Mountjoy, me fathers in Mountjoy?"

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