Young Corkman should be 'eternally grateful' mother rang gardaí after drugs discovery

Defence senior counsel said the young man’s mother made the kind of call that no mother would ever hope to make but did so because her teenage son’s life was out of control

Gardaí had found a rucksack in the young man's bedroom which contained cannabis with a value of €25,500. File picture: Getty

A young man whose own mother rang the gardaí when she found a €25,000 cannabis stash in his bedroom should be “eternally grateful” to her for stopping him on a slippery slope to destruction.

Defence senior counsel, Tom Creed, said the young man’s mother made the kind of call that no mother would ever hope to make but did so because at the time her teenage son’s life was so out of control that she wondered if he would be “dead or alive”.