A personal trainer who said he was holding €25,000 worth of cocaine to pay off a gambling debt has been jailed for 18 months.
During a search of the Dublin home of Elmer Habibovic (31) on April 19, 2018, gardaí seized the cocaine with a total value of €25,500.
Passing sentence today, Judge Elma Sheahan noted that Habibovic was also found in possession of €6,000 in cash in the house and said the court had difficulty accepting the explanation that he had held the drugs in order to pay a gambling debt of €15,000.
She said he also had sufficient savings to repay the debt, if it existed, and that his engagement in the drug trade was therefore for financial gain.
Prison recordings during which a man convicted of coercive control and perverting the course of justice tries to get his victim to withdraw her evidence have been played to the judge in the Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.
A convicted child abuser is to be sentenced next month for the multiple attacks on a young boy 18 years ago.
Kevin Brazil (51) molested the 12-year-old in his flat after coaxing him up with the promise of letting him use high end electronic gadgets in the flat.
The victim later told gardai that Brazil psychologically tortured him by threatening to tell his friends what had happened in the flat if he didn t come to the flat again and carry out further sexual acts.
The Central Criminal Court heard that Brazil was first questioned in 2002 about the offending and made admissions to gardai at Rathmines garda station.