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UK: Cannabis Grower Wins Jail Release

Leicestershire Mercury

Monday 28 Jul 2008

A road-crash victim jailed for growing cannabis which he used as a painkiller, has won his freedom after an appeal.

Christopher Michael Noon, 33, was jailed for six months in June after he admitted growing cannabis in the loft of his girlfriend's house.

Police found 33 plants, together with reflective sheeting and other equipment needed to help the plants grow, when they raided her home in Bowhill Grove, Thurnby Lodge, Leicester, in October.

But the prison sentence was overturned at London's Appeal Court last week.

Judge John Rogers, sitting with Mr Justice Stadlen, said the plants had not reached fruition at the time of the raid and added that Noon intended to use the drug for pain relief for injuries suffered in a motorbike crash.

The appeal judge ruled that a prison sentence was inappropriate because there was no commercial element to the activity and the drugs were intended for medicinal purposes.

Noon, of Coleman Close, Humberstone, Leicester, was instead given a sentence of 200 hours of unpaid work.

He told police his girlfriend knew nothing of the drugs.

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