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UK: Pensioner who grew cannabis spared jail

Nigel Bunyan

The Telegraph

Saturday 11 Mar 2006

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A pensioner spoke of his elation yesterday at being spared a prison
sentence for growing cannabis.

Leslie Williams, 73, of Runcorn, Cheshire, used the drug to ease his
chronic arthritis.

The widower was caught after worried neighbours realised that they had
not seen him for some time and called police.

Officers broke down his front door on Jan 27 and searched his house. In
the bedroom they found 20 cannabis plants, together with an array of
lights, insecticides, compost, growing pellets and scales. Williams, a
former merchant seaman, had already been cautioned last May for
cultivating a similar crop.

Judge David Hale at Warrington Crown Court gave him a two-year
conditional discharge yesterday after he pleaded guilty to producing a
Class C drug.

 

 

 

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