Man who brought more than €117,000 of cannabis into country to be sentenced later

A South African schizophrenic with no previous convictions will be sentenced later at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for bringing more than €117,000 of herbal cannabis into the country.

Fioranda Abdelkhir (aged 43) was wheelchair-bound with a broken ankle when customs officials stopped her at Dublin Airport on suspicion that she had drugs in her luggage.