“*I would have gotten away with to, if it wasn’t for that pesky tax*”
Wonder what other vans were transporting cocaine all around the land that day.
Buses, trains, boats and cars.
Gonna need a big force lads.
🤣
He must have been totally wired!
Remember kids, never commit more than one crime at a time
Jesus, feel sorry for this guy.
Carrying drugs because of a €7k debt and now he’s lost them €1.7m (or whatever that’s really worth) – can’t think they’ll be to happy about that.
He will still have to pay that 7k too if not a lot more for what he got taken
I don’t understand Irish sentencing laws. He gets five an a half years for having drugs (and don’t get me wrong it was a lot). But according to the article he was an addict, he wasn’t exactly a dealer, he had more being coerced into holding the drugs because of a debt, and he is now clean. He’s always worked the whole time and apparently been relatively reliable.
Maybe there are somethings not being mentioned or they don’t believe he wasn’t a dealer, but I don’t understand why that gets you five an half years yet rape or manslaughter will often get way less or just a suspended sentence.
Maybe it’s because he didn’t name anyone but I don’t think anyone would, because if they didn’t kill him for losing the drugs they would kill him for that.
The guy can’t afford motor tax on a van, which is €333, or he couldn’t get a TCC to tax it, yet was ferrying millions in cocaine. He is, or was now, a working electrician.
This is a clear example of the harm of criminalisation. This guy was paying for his addiction through criminal means. As a State, if we provided legal access to cocaine and addiction services, his case could be treated as the medical condition that it is.
Instead, we have a non-violent offender in prison (where his addiction issues will most likely worsen) & a severely impacted future, a family missing a breadwinner, and absolutely zero impact of the availability of cocaine, which can be found within 15 minutes 24/7 in every town and village in Ireland.
Criminalisation caused this problem and sending this man to prison for this crime won’t solve it.
The electrician looking for a buzz
Not the brightest spark
> “If you’re going to carry a lot of drugs, you should have tax on the car at least,” Judge Nolan remarked.
Nice of the Judge to instruct criminals how to evade being nicked…
Sign-up for Judge Nolan’s podcast – “How to plead for leniency when you’re a total scumbag” airing soon.
Nidge won’t let this slide
I better tax my car
Oooof genuinely feel sorry for this man. He should be rehabilitated not imprisoned not to mention his family now need protection.
Don’t get involved in drugs.
They only lead to hardship and misery.
In fairness to the guy. He fully committed to the whole “breaking the law” shtick.
It’s like something you’d see on Americas Dumbest Criminals back in the day.
Pretty sure he was caught with £1.7m of cocaine due to having a massive pile of cocaine, not anything to do with his van.
I get that it’s a serious offense, but there is also a lot of context behind it.
How is it that Martin Nolan is able to find space in a prison for this guy for 5.5 years, yet apparently can’t for the litany of violent offenders he seems to let off at the regular, as well as the likes of civil servants caught with thousands and thousands of files of child porn?
Judge Nolan, can you believe it?
Dude so off his head hes talking like yoda
Anyone else read this praying it’s not their electrician??
They’re like hens teeth. Can’t afford to lose any
Electricians are making loads of money these days, even without a drug business on the side. Really stupid of him to drive an untaxed vehicle.
If you go to to his gaff you can see what could be the van in question.
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Shocking, and not an isolated case either.
Not exactly what you would call a bright spark.
“*I would have gotten away with to, if it wasn’t for that pesky tax*”
Wonder what other vans were transporting cocaine all around the land that day.
Buses, trains, boats and cars.
Gonna need a big force lads.
🤣
He must have been totally wired!
Remember kids, never commit more than one crime at a time
Jesus, feel sorry for this guy.
Carrying drugs because of a €7k debt and now he’s lost them €1.7m (or whatever that’s really worth) – can’t think they’ll be to happy about that.
He will still have to pay that 7k too if not a lot more for what he got taken
I don’t understand Irish sentencing laws. He gets five an a half years for having drugs (and don’t get me wrong it was a lot). But according to the article he was an addict, he wasn’t exactly a dealer, he had more being coerced into holding the drugs because of a debt, and he is now clean. He’s always worked the whole time and apparently been relatively reliable.
Maybe there are somethings not being mentioned or they don’t believe he wasn’t a dealer, but I don’t understand why that gets you five an half years yet rape or manslaughter will often get way less or just a suspended sentence.
Maybe it’s because he didn’t name anyone but I don’t think anyone would, because if they didn’t kill him for losing the drugs they would kill him for that.
The guy can’t afford motor tax on a van, which is €333, or he couldn’t get a TCC to tax it, yet was ferrying millions in cocaine. He is, or was now, a working electrician.
This is a clear example of the harm of criminalisation. This guy was paying for his addiction through criminal means. As a State, if we provided legal access to cocaine and addiction services, his case could be treated as the medical condition that it is.
Instead, we have a non-violent offender in prison (where his addiction issues will most likely worsen) & a severely impacted future, a family missing a breadwinner, and absolutely zero impact of the availability of cocaine, which can be found within 15 minutes 24/7 in every town and village in Ireland.
Criminalisation caused this problem and sending this man to prison for this crime won’t solve it.
The electrician looking for a buzz
Not the brightest spark
> “If you’re going to carry a lot of drugs, you should have tax on the car at least,” Judge Nolan remarked.
Nice of the Judge to instruct criminals how to evade being nicked…
Sign-up for Judge Nolan’s podcast – “How to plead for leniency when you’re a total scumbag” airing soon.
Nidge won’t let this slide
I better tax my car
Oooof genuinely feel sorry for this man. He should be rehabilitated not imprisoned not to mention his family now need protection.
Don’t get involved in drugs.
They only lead to hardship and misery.
In fairness to the guy. He fully committed to the whole “breaking the law” shtick.
It’s like something you’d see on Americas Dumbest Criminals back in the day.
Pretty sure he was caught with £1.7m of cocaine due to having a massive pile of cocaine, not anything to do with his van.
I get that it’s a serious offense, but there is also a lot of context behind it.
How is it that Martin Nolan is able to find space in a prison for this guy for 5.5 years, yet apparently can’t for the litany of violent offenders he seems to let off at the regular, as well as the likes of civil servants caught with thousands and thousands of files of child porn?
Judge Nolan, can you believe it?
Dude so off his head hes talking like yoda
Anyone else read this praying it’s not their electrician??
They’re like hens teeth. Can’t afford to lose any
Electricians are making loads of money these days, even without a drug business on the side. Really stupid of him to drive an untaxed vehicle.
If you go to to his gaff you can see what could be the van in question.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/197JNzANkMs5Txgt9
Drugs are for mugs.
Brings a whole new meaning to transmission lines.