Man jailed for organising lab in Bantry that extracted €51k of cocaine from duvet

The court heard the house in Bantry had been rented temporarily for the purpose of extracting the cocaine from the duvet

Officers told the court that for the extraction to work, the cocaine had to have a 95% purity. File photo: iStock

A duvet soaked in cocaine had €51,000 worth of the drug extracted from it in an impromptu lab set up in a rented house in Bantry and now the main organiser has been sentenced to seven years in prison.

41-year-old Sean MacManus from Burrowfield Road, Baldoyle, Dublin, who lived for a period in Spain, has already served over four years for the crime. A 12-year sentence imposed on him originally was appealed on the basis of severity and constitutionality. In effect, he has been re-sentenced now.