'He is a victim of his own addiction' - Man caught with €3.5k of heroin gets 18 months

Gardaí caught a man with €3,500 worth of heroin at his home in Cork city and today he was jailed for 18 months.

Robert Lennon was sentenced by Judge Brian O’Callaghan to four years with the last two-and-a-half years suspended at Cork Circuit Criminal Court, where he pleaded guilty to a charge of having heroin for sale or supply to others at his home at 60 Upper John Street, Cork.