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Wed 12 Dec 2002Five years' jail for €3.5m drugs operationA diabetic who used her nine-year-old daughter to disguise her role in a €3.5 million heroin and ecstasy operation has been jailed for five years by Judge Des Hogan.Ashley Dawson was arrested, along with another man, on the Lucan bypass with 10.5kg of heroin and 83,000 ecstasy tablets in the boot of her car. The man had been travelling in front of her in a van.