A YOUNG man, branded a "modern-day horror" by Judge Kieran O'Connor, must spend the next year in a drug treatment cent Ire or serve five years in jail.
In May a five-year suspended sentence was imposed on Denis Crowley by Judge O'Connor for a number of crimes. He ordered Crowley to live at home, abide by probation supervision, and stay off drugs or go to jail.
When the case was reviewed again yesterday, Mr Felix Mc Enroy, defending, told Dublin Circuit Criminal Court his client had gone back to injecting heroin and committed further offences.
But since then Crowley had become a resident of the Le Patriarch Centre in Skibbereen, Co Cork, through the intervention of a counsellor and had come off heroin.
Crowley (22), of Bride Street, Dublin, was originally before the court on assault and larceny offences committed in 1994-95, which he admitted. When asked by the judge whether he preferred to return to Skibbereen or go to Mountjoy, the defendant replied "Not to Mountjoy".