Kettering drug dealer returned to life of crime after mum was stabbed
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Shannon O’Boyle was released on licence in July 2023 but by September he was dealing heroin and cocaine to users in the town again. Yesterday (Tuesday) Northampton Crown Court heard he got back involved in drug trafficking because of a risk to himself and his family, having been ‘effectively forced’ into supplying drugs. But because he was a ‘third strike’ offender he faced a mandatory minimum sentence and was locked up for five years and eight months. His Honour Judge Rupert Mayo told him: “I...

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