Neil Mannion boasted that his online drugs operation had more than 90 per cent positive feedback COURTPIXA drug dealer who ran an international operation on the dark net has claimed that he deserves a shorter sentence because he helped gardai to understand online crime. Neil Mannion, of Mount Drummond Avenue, Dublin, was jailed for six-and-a-half years in December. He pleaded guilty alongside Richard O’Connor, of Clonskeagh Road, Dublin, to selling LSD online under the name The Hulkster. O’Connor was jailed for three years. The men, who were the first in the country convicted for online drug dealing, ran accounts on the illegal online marketplaces Silk Road 2 and Agora, which Mannion said were “just like eBay…

Source: The Times October 07, 2016 23:18 UTC