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JOINT EFFORT Fiancée’s appeal for clemency works as man caught with €18k of cannabis avoids jail
She told the Judge that, if he was spared jail, she would ensure that he remained clean. ‘If he slips, he’ll be gone’
March 15 2022 08:29 AM
An appeal for clemency from the fiancée of a drug offender caught in possession of €18,000 worth of cannabis helped persuade Judge James McCourt to suspend a three year prison sentence.
The Circuit Court dealt with the case of Daniel Whitmore, with an address at 6 Dempsey’s Terrace in Wexford.
He admitted having a red box packed with cannabis herb for sale or supply to others on April 29, 2021.
This was date when gardaí arrived in Dempsey’s Terrace with a search warrant issued under the Mis-Use of Drugs Act.
The defendant was outside the property and he appeared to have just received delivery of the box.
When he spotted Garda Declan Mulqueen, he left it outside while he went into the house.
The package was seized and found to contain almost a kilo of cannabis in herbal form.
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He told investigators that he had agreed to receive it as he had a drug debt.
Though he had a previous conviction imposed in 2018 for drug dealing, gardaí did not believe he was involved in the drug trade.
The majority of his 80 previous convictions were imposed for motoring offences.
Whitmore’s fiancée, and mother of his nine year old son, Amy Furlong was called into the witness box.
She told Judge James McCourt that, if he was spared jail, she would ensure that he remained clean of drugs.
‘If he slips, he’ll be gone,’ she said.
The judge reflected the large scale of the seizure by setting a jail term of three years for possession of the cannabis.
However, this was suspended in full once Whitmore agreed to take regular urinalysis tests.
The judge wished him luck and ordered him to take counselling if directed to do so by the probation service.
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