Man found guilty of possessing €1.35m worth of heroin

A man has been found guilty of possessing €1.35m in heroin that gardaí failed to find during a raid on a Kildare house but that was later found stashed, along with cocaine and an assault rifle, in the base of a bed.

Man found guilty of possessing €1.35m worth of heroin

A man has been found guilty of possessing €1.35m in heroin that gardaí failed to find during a raid on a Kildare house but that was later found stashed, along with cocaine and an assault rifle, in the base of a bed.

Presiding judge Mr Justice Paul Coffey said today that the “most critical” of the defendant's fingerprints were found on blocks of diamorphine, showing there had been "direct contact".

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