'Those people are not your friends', judge tells vulnerable Cork man who stored €17k stash of cannabis

Defendant, who has a psychiatric illness, said he did not make any money from storing the drug but did it 'for the friendship of people'

Defendant was given a fully suspended sentence of two years and six months.

A vulnerable man got involved in storing a €17,000 stash of cannabis, more in an effort to make friends rather than make money, and he was also acting with some degree of fear, it emerged at his sentencing hearing.

Judge Helen Boyle imposed a fully suspended sentence of two years and six months on Cormac Fitzpatrick at Cork Circuit Criminal Court.