A young woman jailed for shoplifting to pay for her drug addiction was told by a district judge that her addiction was paying for the lifestyle of dealers in \u201csunnier climes\u201d who would not be there to stand by the young woman\u2019s graveside if she did not manage to get past her addiction.<\/p>\n
Judge Miriam Walsh gave that advice to Olivia Costin, aged 20, who apologised to the stores from which she stole \u2014 Elverys, JD Sports, and Marks & Spencer \u2014 in order to pay for her drug addiction.<\/p>\n
Defence solicitor Killian McCarthy said the young woman regresses to her addiction when she cannot cope with life\u2019s challenges but, he added: \u201cThis is not the life she wants to live and is now taking the first step in getting away from this offending behaviour.\u201d<\/p>\n
Judge Walsh imposed a one-month prison sentence on the young woman and told her that if she continued with drug addiction she could be looking to a pretty short lifespan.<\/p>\n
\u201cBuying drugs facilitated the lives of people in sunny climes. They are enjoying the proceeds of this insidious and vile trade and they will not be there to stand over your coffin,\u201d the judge said.<\/p>\n
Ms Costin said, by video link from prison: \u201cI am willing to change.\u201d<\/p>\n
The judge told her it was in her own hands.<\/p>\n
Solicitor Killian McCarthy said:\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n \u201cShe is a 20-year-old woman and she has had a very difficult life.\u00a0She is using homeless services and emergency accommodation (for the past two years).\n <\/p>\n
\u201cShe has a bad history relating to substance misuse.<\/p>\n
\u201cMore recently she has been engaging with Arbor House and reducing her methadone intake as the weeks go on.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe is someone who is just trying to do her best in the circumstances in the circumstances in which she finds herself.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ms Costin told arresting garda\u00ed her addictions were to crack cocaine and heroin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A young woman jailed for shoplifting to pay for her drug addiction was told by a district judge…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":499421,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-499420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}