Joshua Allen to serve 7 months in prison over drug possession charges

Joshua Allen pictured leaving Midleton Court, Cork after a previous hearing. Photograph: Cork Courts LimitedThe 22-year-old son of celebrity chef, Rachel Allen has been returned to prison to serve a total of seven months after a judge was told that he was caught with cocaine for his own personal use within five weeks of being released from jail from a sentence for drug dealing over €22,000 of cannabis.

She also reactivated 10 months of a 15-month suspended sentence hanging over Allen imposed by Judge Sean O’Donnabhain at Cork Circuit Criminal Court from February 28th, 2020, for possession of €22,000 worth of cannabis for sale or supply contrary to Section 15A of the Misuse of Drugs Act. Det Garda Aidan Dardis told the court that Allen had not come to the attention of gardaí in East Cork for drug dealing since he was caught with cocaine on July 10th, 2020.

Judge Berkeley said that she every sympathy for Allen on a personal level and she recognised that he had addiction issues in relation to cannabis, but she pointed out that he had got every possible support since he first came before the courts but “it appears that the penny has not dropped”. Yet within five weeks of his release from prison, he was caught with cocaine in Midleton and while he had been giving urine samples to his GP at four to six-week intervals since then that showed he was drug free, they were of limited value to the court as they were not randomly taken.

Upper class going down. Job well done judge

It's the same principle he obviously wasn't dealing for profit he was forced to get it off the black market and gave his pals some,if drugs were decriminalised and made legal and controlled we wouldn't be having this discussion now, and this young man would be at home tonight

That’ll teach him a lesson.Worked for everybody else that was sent to prison for drug use.Meanwhile others will drug use not abuse and get on with their lives.Would he not be better off getting what he needed under care etc.

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