Mum tried to fool chemists with fake note

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Andrew Phelan – 09 March 2013 10:40 AM

A MUM-of-three went to two pharmacies with forged prescriptions within half an hour in an "amateurish" attempt to get drugs, a court heard.

Rebecca McEnroe (32) tried to use the prescriptions "at the behest" of another person she owed money to.
She left empty handed on both occasions and was arrested for fraud offences.
A judge adjourned the case against her for the preparation of a probation report.
McEnroe, of Cathedral View Walk, Dublin 8, at pleaded guilty to two counts of possession of a forged prescription on September 27, 2012.
Garda Shane Behan told Dublin District Court the accused first went to Castle Pharmacy on Aungier Street and handed staff the forged prescription.
This purported to be from St James's Hospital and was for drugs including Diazepam and Zimovane.
She was not given the drugs and a half hour later she went to Castle Pharmacy in Rialto and handed over a prescription for the same amount of drugs.
"On both occasions, the pharmacist became aware of the forgery and she left empty handed," the garda said.
The pharmacists told gardai the prescriptions were "immediately obvious as being false" and "not sophisticated" forgeries, McEnroe's lawyer said.
The accused began smoking heroin at the age of 19 and most of her previous convictions were related to her drug difficulties, her lawyer said.
She had been doing "much better in recent times", and had been in treatment which ended a year ago. However, she relapsed and the offences were related to that.
"It was a very amateurish attempt to get drugs," McEnroe's lawyer said.
"It was done at the behest of an individual she owed money to and in her drug-dependant state, she went along with it."
Judge Michael Walsh adjourned the case to April 30 for a probation report.