An Australian drug mule serving time in the Midlands Prison has gone to the High Court looking for an order to stop his legal correspondence being obstructed.
44-year-old Andrew Perceval was jailed for 7 years in 2009 after arriving in Ireland with a stomach full of cocaine pellets.
Mr. Perceval was caught when he went to hospital having spent 4 days trying to pass the cocaine pellets after taking laxatives.
He was jailed for 7 years for possession of drugs valued at €56,000 and is now in the Midlands Prison.
In this High Court challenge he claims he gave a letter to be sent to his solicitor by registered post to the prison authorities on July 17th but that 3 days later it had not been sent.
He wants a judicial review and an order that ‘future legal correspondence not be hindered or obstructed’.
Mr. Justice Colm MacEochaidh noted persons in custody have a right to correspond with their legal advisors and he has directed an inquiry into whether a letter was handed over to prison authorities and if it was what became of it.
