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UK: Drug dealer's prison sentence cut on appeal
Watford Observer Monday 12 Dec 2011 Leon Williams Browne, 25, of Gladstone Road, was jailed for eight-and-a-half years at Luton Crown Court in June for a string of drugs and weapons offences. He had been charged with two counts of possessing cannabis with intent to supply, one of possessing cocaine with intent to supply and two of possessing a prohibited weapon. As he was sent down, Browne moaned to the crown court judge, Judge John Bevan QC, that he was being punished more harshly than a rapist. On Friday, after an appeal by his lawyers, he had his "manifestly excessive" sentence slashed to six years by three judges at London's Court of Appeal. Mr Justice Owen, sitting with Lord Justice Laws and Mr Justice Haddon-Cave, said Browne was caught out when police raided his home in January. They found two CS gas cannisters, cocaine, cannabis, cutting agents, drug dealers' lists, scales, a money counter and more than £1,000 in cash. Challenging the length of the prison sentence, lawyers argued that he had been too harshly punished for the amount and purity of the drugs found. Allowing the appeal, Mr Justice Owen said: "It was a total of 173 grams, but at 100 per cent purity, that represented just over 50 grams." The judges cut the sentence for the cocaine to five years, but said the 12 months for the CS gas cannisters should run consecutively. http://www.watfordobserver.co.uk/news/9414049.Drug_dealer_s_prison_sentence_cut_on_appeal/
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