Seven months for using heroin in church car park

A seven-month jail term was imposed yesterday on a man caught in a church car park with heroin for his own use. Solicitor Diarmuid Kelleher said that, in fairness to 34-year-old Ross Pardy, of 4 Beech Road, Passage West, Co Cork, he had turned his life around completely since going into custody a year ago to commence an 18-month sentence.

Mr Kelleher said the accused had weaned himself off heroin and cleared himself of all addictions including Benzodiazepines. Pardy was on a relatively high dosage of 120ml of methadone as part of his programme to get off heroin, but he steadily reduced that and was no longer getting any methadone.