'Blackmail' trial: Former councillor denies taking cocaine

A former Fianna Fáil councillor at the centre of an alleged blackmail plot has denied in court that he was taking cocaine on the night in question

Wesley Higgins (aged 33) is accused of attempting to extort €5,000 from ex Dublin City Councillor, Liam Kelly, by threatening to give pictures of him allegedly taking cocaine to a newspaper. The pictures were printed in the Sunday World shortly afterwards.