Man caught 'red handed' with £190k in cocaine
A County Down man who was caught with £190,000 worth of cocaine has been jailed for 18 months for drug offences.
Kirkwood also admitted driving whilst disqualified and was given a one-year sentence to be served consecutively.The judge told the 45-year-old of Everogue Lane in Crossgar: "You have 214 previous convictions, 95 for road traffic offences. This was your 35th conviction for driving whilst disqualified.
Belfast Crown Court heard police stopped Kirkwood, who was driving a moped, on the Beersbridge Road in east Belfast on 10 November 2021.Prosecutor Natalie Pinkerton said a number of cutting agents, including benzocaine, were also found by police. "But couriers play a vital role in crimes of this nature and crimes of this nature can't be completed without couriers.''Defence counsel Richard McConkey said Kirkwood was "moving the drugs from A to B but was not involved in the organisation of this drug concern''.
"He has been abusing drugs throughout a long period of his life but he doesn't have a single conviction prior to this for supplying drugs despite his age.
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