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UK: Cannabis man praised

The Cotswold Journal

Friday 03 Feb 2006

-----A WINCHCOMBE man who runs a website promoting cannabis growing has
had his community order revoked because he has made such a success of
his community work.

Julian Heeks, aged 37, of Cowl Lane, Winchcombe, was sentenced to do 100
hours of community work and given a two year community rehabilitation
order in November last year after police found a total of 44 cannabis
plants growing at his home.

They produced a total yield of 450 grams of the drug, and Heeks admitted
cultivating cannabis, two charges of supplying it and one of making an
offer to supply.

But on Tuesday, Heeks' probation officer Sian Worrall told a judge a
Gloucester Crown Court that Heeks had made good enough progress at the
community work side of his punishment that the rehabilitation order
should be revoked.

Judge Jamie Tabor, QC, agreed to revoke the remaining community
rehabilitation part of the order, saying: "He's done very well indeed
and has always turned up, except when he's been unwell."

At his sentencing in November 2005, prosecutor Giles Nelson said: "The
defendant, by his own admission, is involved in an organisation called
UK420.com, a website which promotes the home growing of cannabis.

"That company, it is accepted by the Crown, is largely concerned with
selling seeds and paraphernalia to grow cannabis at home."

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