SALTHILL STUDENT FINED FOR COCAINE AND CANNABIS POSSESSION

Date Published: 16-Oct-2007

A third-year Commerce student at NUI Galway has escaped a custodial sentence for drugs offences and fined 900 euro.Ian Jackson of 8 Ardilaun Road, Salthill, was found with cocaine and cannabis in his possession while hiding behind a car on O'Conaire Road, Shantalla where Gardai found evidence of drug use on September 23. Galway District court was told he was highly intoxicated at the time.