Vulnerable man's home used by drug dealers to stash just under €100k of ecstasy tablets

Counsel said that Freer should have had been linked in with social services but this didn't happen until gardaí raided his home.

Vulnerable man's home used by drug dealers to stash just under €100k of ecstasy tablets

A court has heard that drug dealers used the home of a vulnerable intellectually disabled man to stash just under €100,000 worth of ecstasy tablets, writes Sonya McLean.

John Freer (43) was living in “diabolic personal circumstances”, Michael Bowman SC, defending told Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

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