The pint-sized criminal was handed a fine and suspended prison sentence by a Costa Blanca judge after admitting to smuggling cannabis and powerful sleeping pills into Ireland and being the owner of a weapon found hidden in the back garden of his Costa Blanca home.
Irish gangster John Gilligan left a Spanish court a free man today despite confessing to drugs and weapons charges.
Gilligan’s British girlfriend Sharon Oliver, currently in hospital in the UK, was not in court and will be tried on Tuesday after it emerged she is the only one of the nine insisting she has done nothing wrong. She is expected to give evidence via videolink. He had also been warned he faced 10 months in prison if found guilty of belonging to a criminal gang.
The Irishman, dressed in black trousers and a blue short-sleeved shirt, went on to claim his absent British girlfriend was innocent, telling the court: “My partner Sharon knows nothing about anything. It was all my fault.”
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