CITY DRUG DEALER GETS SIX YEAR PRISON SENTENCE

Date Published: 08-May-2009

A heroin dealer, who claimed Gardai planted heroin on him, was sentenced to six years in prison at Galway Circuit Criminal Court this week.38 year old John Tompkins of 181 Castlelawn Heights, Headford Road, denied having heroin with a street value in excess of €10,000 in his possession and with having the drug for sale or supply at Woodquay, on April 9, last year.Tompkins claimed that when he slipped and fell on the footpath as he tried to run away, a Garda jumped on top of him and another Garda planted two bags of heroin in his pocket.