No jail for woman who used child to smuggle drugs into prison

A Wicklow woman who attempted to smuggle heroin into Mountjoy Prison concealed in a child’s pocket has been given an 18-month suspended sentence.

No jail for woman who used child to smuggle drugs into prison

A Wicklow woman who attempted to smuggle heroin into Mountjoy Prison concealed in a child’s pocket has been given an 18-month suspended sentence.

Collette Hyland (aged 23) had agreed to bring the child to visit its father in prison as a favour but was then pressurised to bring in drugs or else the inmate would be beaten up.

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