Woman jailed after smuggling mobile phone into Mountjoy Prison
A 25-year-old woman has been jailed for nine months for smuggling a mobile phone into Mountjoy Prison.
Kirsty Doyle of East Wall, Dublin, pleaded guilty to bringing the phone into the prison September 9, 2013.
Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard that Kirsty Doyle was addicted to heroin and crack cocaine at the time and agreed to smuggle the phone into prison in exchange for €500.
She refused to tell gardaí who had asked her to do the delivery and who the phone was brought in for.
The court was told that the prison's metal detector activated when she'd walked in. She had initially denied having anything that had set if off.
But she soon admitted that she had a package and handed over a small mobile phone wrapped in a condom which she removed from her underwear.
Doyle told gardaí she knew it was wrong but said she was homeless at the time and needed the money.
Judge Martin Nolan took into account Doyle's guilty plea and co-operation but said he felt a custodial sentence was warranted and imposed a term of nine months.
