Man caught growing cannabis in window of his Cork apartment 'made tea with it', court told

The defendant's solicitor said there was a certain naivety about growing cannabis in windows in full view of people passing

When gardaí carried out a search they seized three cannabis plants with a potential street value of €2,400, cannabis herb worth €1,580, amphetamine with a street value of €10 and magic mushrooms worth €10. File picture: Getty

A man caught growing cannabis with a potential street value of €2,400 together with over €1,500 in dried cannabis claimed that he was using the material to make cannabis tea to help him sleep.

Liam Lyons who lives at an apartment at Park View, Victoria Road, Cork, made the detection of his cannabis growing relatively easy for An Garda Síochána by setting the plants in the window of his apartment overlooking Blackrock Road.