Suspended sentence for heroin addict

A heroin addict who told gardai she had €4,600 worth of drugs so she could overdose because she had just been diagnosed with a long-term illness has been given a two-year suspended sentence.

Donna Loughrey (aged 35) of Mourne Road, Drimnagh also claimed that a scales, found on her during a garda search, was used for weighing jewellery rather than drugs.