Judge: Sentencing on 'knife edge' for drug dealing accused

Midleton man, who faces 10 years, has failed to show up for three appointments with probation service

The judge said he will give the accused one last chance to engage with the probation service.

A young Midleton man facing the possibility of a minimum jail term of 10 years for drug-dealing failed to show up for three of his appointments with the probation service in advance of sentencing and now the judge said the adjourned sentencing is “on a knife edge”. 

Defence senior counsel Ray Boland accepted that the probation report on Dylan O’Riordan, of Beechwood Court, Midleton, Co Cork, was not favourable in that he had failed to attend to the probation service as much as was required.