Heroin dealer with 'an aversion to needles' jailed in Cork for having €30k of drug in attic

Judge Helen Boyle said that by selling heroin he had been spreading misery in Cork city. File picture

A 51-year-old Freemount man caught with over €30,000 worth of heroin in his attic in Cork city has an aversion to needles and has been smoking heroin for 20 years and now he has been jailed for two years.

Judge Helen Boyle said that by selling heroin he had been spreading misery in Cork city. The judge imposed a sentence of four years with half of it suspended in the case against Patrick O’Leary who was living in an apartment at Mount Vernon Terrace, St. Luke’s, Cork, at Cork Circuit Criminal Court.