Gardaí found shivering boy, 3, in cabin while mother was taking heroin, Cork court told

A garda told the court there was no electricity, heating or running water in the cabin at the back of the derelict house.

Garda Judith Notley testified at Cork District Court that she found the three-year-old boy with his mother and the mother’s partner in a cabin at the back of a derelict house.

A three-year-old boy was found by gardaí shivering with the cold in a cabin at the back of a derelict house in Cork city while his mother and her partner were visibly involved in the taking of heroin.

Judge Colm Roberts said it spoke volumes that the mother and her partner had been allocated money for accommodation in Cork but were keeping it to make trips to Dublin to buy more heroin.