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Man who grew cannabis at home spared jail
Herald Express Wednesday 30 Sep 2009 Darren Bailey, 32, from New Park Road, pleaded guilty to producing cannabis and five further charges of supplying, possession with intent to supply and possession of the drug at an earlier hearing. But sentencing him yesterday Judge Wassall said he would give Bailey an 18-month community order with supervision, with a specific requirement that he completes an Addressing Substance Related Offending programme and completes 250 hours of unpaid work. At the time of the offences in November last year the drug was categorised as a class C substance and prosecutor Ann Hampshire said officers discovered the plants growing in a bedroom at the home Bailey shared with his partner and three children, one of whom is severely disabled. The cannabis was grown in stages and Judge Wassall said the operation was commercial with the plants' potential yield standing at £6,500. "You were selling that commercially, to the extent that you had a trail of about 25 people coming to the house and buying cannabis," he said. Bailey then invested that money in purchasing cannabis resin and Judge Wassall said he was running 'a cannabis nursery' and that his £50 a day habit was one of the highest he had ever heard about. Judge Wassall warned Bailey that he had reserved the right revoke the suspended sentence if he reoffended and it could be as long as three years in custody. The sentence was passed in relation to the production, possession with intent to supply and supply of cannabis offences and there was no separate penalties for the simple possession offences. http://www.thisissouthdevon.co.uk/news/Man-grew-cannabis-home-spared-jail/article-1380153-detail/article.html
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