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UK: Wirral taxi driver who grew cannabis for 'medicinal reasons' is given suspended jail sentence By Lynda Roughley Wirral Globe Tuesday 22 Mar 2011 Liverpool Crown Court heard how police executed a search warrant at Darren Coppell's home on November 11 last year. He immediately told the officers that there were cannabis plants in the loft and when they searched the area they found 44 of them growing in "tents" with specialist heating, lighting and ventilation installed. They also found £3,000 cash, said Derek Jones, prosecuting. When interviewed he said he had started growing cannabis for health reasons including a bad back and his bad nerves and was not going to sell it. Mr Jones told the court that the plants had a potential yield of 1.8 kilos of dried leaf. Coppell, 45, of Hesketh Avenue, Birkenhead, pleaded guilty to cultivating cannabis. The judge, Recorder Vincent Fraser, QC, sentenced him to eight months imprisonment suspended for 12 months and ordered him to carry out 140 hours unpaid work. He told him the offence involved a "degree of sophistication" and clearly cross the custody threshold. John Weate, defending, said that Coppell, who has no previous convictions, had been taking cannabis because of problems with anxiety but was now taking medication for that problem. He said: "It was sophisticated enterprise but do-it-yourself and he did not steal the electricity. He has had a whopping electricity bill to pay because of this operation." http://www.wirralglobe.co.uk/news/8924349.Wirral_taxi_driver_who_grew_cannabis_for__medicinal_reasons__is_given_suspended_jail_sentence/
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