Man convicted for using ‘suspicious’ prescription at Limerick pharmacy

WHEN Abdelkarim Boulahbal, aged 32, of Knockalisheen, Meelick, Clare, asked to fill a prescription of 30 tablets on October 12, 2024, the pharmacist at Raheen Pharmacy, Courtfields, Limerick, “had a suspicion that it was a false prescription,” a court has heard.

The pharmacist then tried to verify the prescription, and upon contact with the GP, the prescription was confirmed as being false.

Prosecuting Sergeant Denis Waters told Limerick District Court that Mr Boulahbal told gardaí he was asked by a friend to do it.

The sergeant added that Mr Boulahbal has four previous convictions, all of which are for road traffic offences.

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He was last in court on September 22, 2025, for careless driving and driving without insurance or a licence.

Solicitor Tom Kiely, representing the man, said: “He’d been given it by somebody else.”

The solicitor said that when Mr Boulahbal was approached with the prescription “he took it in good faith,” although he did find it “slightly suspicious”.

Mr Kiely added: “He didn’t make any bones about it.”

Judge Patricia Harney, convicted Mr Boulahbal of using a false instrument, and fined him €500.

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