Cork DJ caught with €1,400 cannabis after already being charged over €35,000 of drug

Judge said  aggravating factor in the case was that Cork man had already been charged with having €35,000 worth of the drug

Cork man said he did not drink alcohol but when he returned from a night working as a DJ he would smoke cannabis at home.

A Mallow-based DJ was caught with €1,400 worth of cannabis at a time when he was being prosecuted for an earlier incident where he had €35,000 worth of the drug.

Judge Seán Ó Donnabháin has now said that €1,400 was not a huge amount of drugs but the significance of the detection — and the aggravating factor in the case — was that he had already been charged with having €35,000 worth of the drug.