A couple who hid £20,000 worth of heroin in their bedroom have been sentenced by Judge Frank O'Donnell at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.
Paul Coyne (27), Belbulbin Avenue, Drimnagh, was jailed for six years for having heroin for supply on November 3rd, 1997. Janet Hawkins (25), of the same address, was given a three years' suspended sentence. She pleaded guilty to an additional charge of having heroin for supply at Mountjoy Jail, North Circular Road on December 20th, 1997.
Judge O'Donnell recommended Coyne be transferred to Coolmine Therapeutic Centre. Det Garda Eric Feery, Ballyfermot, said Hawkins was stopped by gardai on the grounds of Mountjoy Prison in the early afternoon of September 20th, 1997 and found to have just over one gram of heroin to deliver to Coyne. Det Garda Traolach Short, Crumlin, said gardai seized a bag which contained a number of smaller packets of heroin from the couple's bedroom in Hawkins's parents' house on December 20th, 1997.