A 27-year-old-man caught with €5,000 worth of drugs has been told by a judge that there is an “endless list of people affected by the catastrophe of drug dealing. Cameron Coyne, with an address at Kilbreena Crescent, Dunboyne pleaded guilty at Trim Circuit Court to possession of cocaine and ketamine for sale or supply along with a weighing scales at Kilbreena Crescent in August 2023. An earlier hearing was told that the accused had was termed “a mobile shop” in a Caddy van parked opposite his house.
Judge John Martin told that hearing that only a short time before this current case he had been in trouble for drug possession and notwithstanding that pending case had “gone had it again”. The court was told yesterday (Wednesday)by barrister James O’Brien that since the last hearing his client had undergone urinalysis with the Matt Talbot Community Trust every fortnight up to 18 th May and that these were all negative for drugs.
During the sentencing hearing Judge Martin said that he had received a letter from the accused stating that he was trying to turn his life around. He said there was an endless list of people affected by drug dealing. The whole drug dealing industry was supported by people like the accused.
Everybody was appalled by the amount of drug dealing in society which affected thousands of families in the State. Generally speaking, however, he felt that the accused’s offending was at the “lower end of the scale”. He was someone who had been engaged with drugs since he was 15. The judge said a headline sentence would be two and a half years but he would mitigate that to two years and he would suspend that in full with the condition that the accused enter a bond to be of good behaviour for two and a half years and to come under the supervision of the Probation Service. A sum of €4,000 offered by the accused was directed to be paid to the Meath Community Drug and Alcohol Response.
