'Soft-touch' dealer given suspended sentence for holding drugs for criminal

A "soft-touch" drug dealer who was holding cocaine and ecstasy for a criminal because he feared he would be shot has been given a three-year suspended sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Alan Connor (aged 23), an apprentice plasterer with 16 previous convictions, was found to have cannabis resin, cocaine and 797 ecstasy tablets which had a combined street value of €12,210 stored in his home.