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A FORMER CHEF who approached a plainclothes garda and tried to sell him €2,000 worth of heroin has been given 240 hours of community service.
Darren Trimble (35) of Nicholas Street, Dublin, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to possession of heroin for sale or supply at Heuston Station on 4 April 2013.
On 28 March 2013, Garda David Naughton was on plain clothes duty at Fatima Luas Stop when he spotted two people acting suspiciously beside an electricity supply unit.
As the garda walked towards the pair, Trimble stopped him and started chatting. Soon after Trimble asked him if he was looking to score heroin, saying he could get him any amount he wanted.
Trimble then walked with Garda Naughton towards Ruben Street and arranged to meet days later at Heuston Station.
At the train station Garda Naughton met with Trimble who took the drugs, which were later valued at over €3,000, from his tracksuit bottoms. Trimble admitted that the heroin was his and he was trying to sell it but did not plead guilty until the value was revised downwards to €2,083.
Defence counsel, Luigi Rea BL, said that Trimble was a qualified chef with two daughters but had lost his career when he began using heroin in his mid twenties.
Mr Rea said Trimble was well liked in the area he grew up and had attended Greendale Community School where he was taught by author Roddy Doyle. Mr Rea handed in a drug test which showed Trimble is clean of opiates and told the court that whatever Trimble’s own intentions, his long term partner was adamant that he would not use heroin again.
Judge Desmond Hogan sentenced Trimble to 240 hours community service in lieu of a two year prison sentence. Judge Hogan said he regarded Trimble as the ‘lowest rung of the ladder’ when it came to such offences. He also said that while the valuation was revised by an analyst, it was still a significant amount of drugs.
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Sweet Jesus. Community service for pushing skag. Scümbag.
Selling heroin is like selling a loaded gun in my opinion. Another fine example of our mighty legal system.
Nothing for being a banker that destroys a country. 30 days (240/8) of community service for selling drugs but god help you if you can’t afford your TV licence or water taxes
Community service..this country is a fkn joke.
This article highlights a couple of things that are wrong with our courts system. The first thing being that the incident occurred in April 2013 – how has this offence taking 2 years to get to a sentence? And secondly, community service for selling a significant amount of a drug that kills people?! That is so lenient, you can be sure that he has sold the same quantities to hundreds of other people too.
I would not want him working in my community.
If you scratch the surface a little it would make your hair stand on end.
For example, a haulier in Louth named Keiron Boylan who was importing heroin and not only did the Guards there know he was doing it but they were actually helping him to do it. At one stage one of his trucks arrived into port, the port Guards were going to search the vehicle and the Guards showed up, jumped into it and f*cked off with it! Have a google.
I was also talking to someone over the weekend who told me the Guards were actually controlling the drugs market in Athlone.
Yes but he was taught by Roddy Doyle so obviously that negates any wrongdoing and makes him a model citizen.
What.. why isn’t this rat in jail?
A community sentence for this lad is ridiculous. These are the people we should be locking up not the small time addicts. Baffling
As per the script for the judicial system. Judges happy to continue with this nonsense as everyone kept in very lucrative jobs. Same will happen next time for this lad.
The system is happy for folk to complain about water charges whilst the real scandals continue unchallenged.
Joke of a justice system.
Cue the bleedin heart brigade….but he’s an addict, he needs help not jail, but he has kids..yadayadayada…the pr!ck should be locked up away from society and when he gets out he should have a 200m exclusion zone away from kids.
Community service ffs…whats the bleedin use in that? A complete and utter waste of time and money, and sure in between his so called service hours he’s probably out peddling again, if he’s not too busy being high.
You’re dead right there, only he’ll probably be out peddling more heroin to the community while doing his community service. Joke of a sentence that just encourages drug dealing as there is no deterrent from being caught.
What a fuking country we live in. I spent a day in the criminal courts recently as a witness, what an absolute pantomime
More job security for the judicial system.
Pity they didn’t stuff him full of the shit that has ruined many a poor kids life
Eye for an eye.
I blame rowdy roddy doyle
How many lives has he ruined???
Lollol. Where’s the outrage?
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