A Tipperary fireman has been found not guilty of possession of cocaine worth almost €80,000 that was allegedly found in his locker at Nenagh Fire Station six years ago.
The trial heard cocaine worth €78,000 was found wrapped in individual plastic bags in a lunch box in Mr Morgan’s locker at Nenagh Fire Station during a routine inspection of staff lockers, on January 17th, 2018.
Mr Morgan told gardaí he did not know if he was being “set up” or if someone had mistakenly put the drugs into his locker: “If I was trying to hide anything, I would have locked it.” Garda Loughlin said he believed a text message retrieved from a mobile phone belonging to John Walsh and sent to Mr Morgan’s mobile phone, which referred to “hunting gear”, was code for drugs. However the two accused men denied this.
Walsh, who works as a plasterer and a dog breeder, during Garda interviews, said he could not explain how a sample of his DNA was found on a knot on one of the plastic bags containing cocaine.
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