Cork teen turns life around after mother's tip-off leads gardaí to €25k of cannabis in rucksack

The mother feared that her son’s life was out of control, but Paul Montgomery has turned his life around significantly since the incident

Friends contacted the then-teenager by Snapchat to arrange the purchase of cannabis. File picture: Getty

A mother feared that her teenage son’s life was so out of control that she wondered if he would be “dead or alive” when she returned home and she called the gardaí who arrived to find over €25,000 worth of cannabis in a rucksack in his bedroom.

Paul Montgomery was 19 at the time and is now 21 and has turned his life around significantly since the incident when his life had spiralled out of control and he had been sucked into the vortex of drugs, his senior counsel, Tom Creed, said at Cork Circuit Criminal Court.