Appeal against 12-year drug sentence rejected

A hospital porter who turned an apartment into a cocaine factory has had his appeal against the severity of his 12-year jail sentence dismissed by the Court of Criminal Appeal.

Last November Kevin Kelly (aged 27), of Hawthorn Mews, Dublin Hill, Cork, pleaded guilty to possessing €327,000 worth of cocaine for sale and supply in a rucksack he was carrying and in a bedroom that was set up as a factory for cutting pure cocaine out of an apartment at Brideholm, Commons Road Cork, on October 24, 2006.