2018-04-18
"Smart but stupid' dealer caught with €26k in drugs avoids jail
Stage: Sentence
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: Judge Martin Nolan sentenced Foster to five years in prison which he suspended in full. He said Foster was young at the time and caught at a very early stage. "My instinct was to imprison him but I decided to think about it overnight and this has mellowed me somewhat," Judge Nolan said, before he added that Foster's co-operation and plea of guilty allowed him to depart from the mandatory 10 year sentence.