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UK: 10 months jail for cannabis man of Llay
Daily Post
Friday 25 Jan 2008 A DRUG dealer dubbed the “the cannabis man of Llay” by a judge was yesterday jailed for 10 months. Richard Harrison’s car stank of the drug when police pulled him over, Mold Crown Court heard yesterday. When they later searched his home, they found a light on in a built-in cupboard in a bedroom of his house in Bryn Place, Llay, near Wrexham, and a cannabis plant growing. The cupboard walls were lined with shiny paper. Various amounts of herbal cannabis were found in the house which Harrison claimed was for his own use. But prosecuting barrister Andrew Jebb told the court that police analysed text messages on his mobile telephone, which clearly showed he had been selling cannabis between February and May last year. Orders had been placed by others and police also recovered his replies. Harrison, 33, admitted possessing herbal cannabis, cultivating one cannabis plant, and being concerned in the supply of cannabis to friends, acquaintances and relatives. Jailing him, Judge John Rogers QC told him: “Only a prison sentence is appropriate for cannabis suppliers.” The judge warned Harrison that if he dealt in cannabis on his release, then the sentence next time would be measured in years. He said the defendant was “the cannabis man of Llay” and that he had clearly been trying to improve his financial return by growing the drug himself. Mr Jebb said that police stopped Harrison’s car one evening in May last year in Llay. He was arrested and his home searched. Three cannabis heads were drying on the gas cooker. The defendant took officers to a bedroom where in a built-in cupboard some four feet long a halogen light was over a large cannabis plant. Herbal cannabis and seeds were seized, together with books and leaflets on how to grow cannabis. Harrison said he had bought them on the internet. Defending barrister Des Parry said Harrison accepted what he had done was illegal, but he had certain views about the use of cannabis, which were not uncommon. He made no bones about his use of cannabis. He had always used it, and Mr Parry stressed that the operation involved only one plant. Mr Parry said it was a one-off incident, when he was left with little money at Christmas because of the amount he was paying the Child Support Agency.
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