'You should try it': Cork man caught with cannabis suggested gardaí cook with it, court told

Judge Boyle imposed a sentence of three years and four months with the final six months suspended

Gardaí found the €19,000 worth of cannabis two months after a stash of almost 10 times that amount was found. File picture

A drug-dealer caught with over €19,000 worth of cannabis at his home told arresting gardaí who uncovered the stash that he was going to cook with it and suggested to the officers: “You should try it.” 

Gardaí found this cannabis two months after a stash of almost 10 times that amount was found — and now the man who confessed to having the drugs on both occasions claimed that the second stash was there all along, but not found in the first search.