'The penny has not dropped': Joshua Allen jailed for seven months

Defence barrister said at sentencing hearing on Friday that while the defendant had been adamant last week that no drugs would be found in his system in relation to a suspected drug-driving incident in Dungarvan last month, 'that is not correct' 

Joshua Allen. File picture: Cork Courts Limited

Joshua Allen has been sent back to prison to commence a sentence of seven months arising out of two drugs cases as the judge said of the accused: “It appears that the penny has not dropped.” 

The young man’s barrister, Donal O’Sullivan, said the young man wanted to put his hands up about a very recent matter of suspected drug-driving in Dungarvan last month.