A “nice” pensioner who was living an “off the grid” lifestyle has avoided a jail sentence after he was found to be in possession of forty cannabis plants which he was growing for his own personal use at his home in west Cork.
Richard Goldfrapp, with an address at Kilcoe in Skibbereen, previously received a three-year suspended sentence for the same offence.
Dt Garda Andrew Manning told Cork Circuit Criminal Court that he went to the home of the 73-year-old, who lives in a remote area, on June 11, 2021, with a search warrant.
