Drug-runner has sentence increased

A convicted Cork drugs-trafficker has had his Dutch jail sentence increased after the public prosecutor protested that his punishment…

A convicted Cork drugs-trafficker has had his Dutch jail sentence increased after the public prosecutor protested that his punishment was too lenient.

Judges at Amsterdam Court of Appeal yesterday ruled that Sean O'Flynn (49), of Arigadeen Lawn, Togher, Cork, should serve three years' imprisonment instead of two, from his arrest last year.

O'Flynn, who was convicted of trafficking 25,000 ecstasy tablets by Utrecht District Court last December, had earlier been jailed for three years in Spain for having 104kg of hashish.

The appeal judges said O'Flynn was trafficking the ecstasy to Ireland.