Man jailed for 20 years for cannabis, cocaine possession

A 31-year-old man was on Wednesday handed a 20-year jail sentence after having been found guilty of the possession of a little over 15 kilograms of cocaine and almost 95 kilograms of cannabis, with the intent to supply.

He was sentenced by the Larnaca criminal court, which, in its verdict, lamented that “in recent years, our country has witnessed the trafficking of large quantities of drugs, with the result that the number of victims is increasing uncontrollably”.

“The spread...