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Two men who were charged after a concrete block was thrown through a house door because a witness declared in a statement he was “100 per cent” sure it was them, both walked free from court this week (June 1) after the witness became “reluctant” and contradicted his statement in the witness box.

A mother of three, believed by Gardaí to be “a major player in drug dealing in Athlone” who took up the reins of her husbands’s operation after he got jailed for 10 years in 2007, was given a five year suspended sentence in the Circuit Court this week (December 10) after being convicted of possession with intent to supply nearly €7,000 worth of heroin to customers all over the country.

A man and a woman charged with an assault using teeth and a wheel brace will have to attend their next court dates separately when it was revealed he has a suspended sentence to be dealt with in the Circuit Court first.

A woman who tested positive for cannabis and opiates after being stopped on suspicion of drug driving had her charge dismissed in court this week (October 5) after the judge ruled gardai had not proven her inability to drive as required by the law.

A woman who disagreed with a judge’s opinion in the District Court this week (December 16) was threatened with seven days in Mountjoy for her trouble.