Drugs pair have appeal cases dismissed

A bid by two men, who claimed they were “stitched up” by gardaí, to have their appeal against their convictions for the possession of heroin worth €43,000 heard by the Supreme Court has been dismissed by the Court of Criminal Appeal.

Aidan Finnegan (aged 31), with an address at Farranferris, Farranree, Co Cork, and Alan Morrison (aged 32), of Coultry Road, Ballymun, Dublin, had denied possession of 215 grams of heroin at a wooded area at Brooklodge Grove, Glanmire on September 5, 2008.