Eight years for 'errand boy' caught holding heroin

A carpenter who was caught with nearly €33,000 worth of heroin after he became an “errand boy” to repay a “sinister individual” who had loaned him €25,000 has been given an eight-year sentence.

Paul McGann (aged 25) had borrowed the money to do up his house but spent half of it on cocaine and was storing drugs along with assorted paraphernalia in order to knock €1,000 a week off his loan.