Cannabis smuggler jailed
07.01.11
A man who tried to smuggle £18,000 worth of cannabis in to the UK via Belfast International Airport has been jailed for six months. Kenneth Farrell, 22, of Bluebell Road, Dublin, was sentenced after officers from the UK Border Agency caught him with 1.8 kgs of the drug when he arrived on a flight from Amsterdam in November.
At Antrim's Crown Court, Mr Farrell admitted to importing the drug and was sentenced to 6 months imprisonment. In response to a request from his defence barrister for a suspended sentence His Honour Judge Smyth Q.C. told Farrell: ‘You have passed that threshold and it I think it is important that I back up the checks the UK Border Agency do.’
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