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UK: Hartcliffe pensioner grew cannabis for hip pain court told
Bristol Post Saturday 19 May 2012 Police found 20 plants growing in a tent at 68-year-old Robert Richmond's flat in Oak House, Hartcliffe. The cannabis was growing under high-powered lights, with fans, ventilation and drying racks standing nearby. The crop would have yielded 1.63kg of cannabis, with a street value of about £10,000. Prosecuting at Bristol Crown Court, Rachel Garstang said the Crown did not accept the plants were being grown solely for personal use. She said £1,600 in £20 notes was also found in the flat during the raid last October 3. Richmond admitted producing a class B drug, but said the money had been given to him by his daughter over a number of months and was not the proceeds of drug dealing. The court was told he had bought the equipment for the cultivation six weeks earlier for £300, and bought cannabis cuttings to plant at £2.50 each. Mitigating, Nicholas Arthur said it was a "relatively small" production operation and his client had grown the drugs for his own use, mainly to relieve pain in his hip and one of his knees. Recorder of Bristol Judge Neil Ford QC imposed a 34-week sentence, suspended for two years. He also imposed a 7pm-7am curfew for six months. He told Richmond the set-up in his flat showed a "degree of sophistication". Judge Ford said: "You are in ill health and you have difficulties with your hip. You have pleaded guilty under the early guilty plea scheme. "Let it be known that those who use this scheme will receive the maximum credit for their guilty plea and it is also an indication of remorse." He added: "The cultivation of cannabis on this scale demands a sentence of imprisonment, but taking into account all the mitigating factors I have mentioned, I'm prepared in your case, exceptionally, to suspend the term of imprisonment." http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/Pensioner-grew-cannabis-hip-pain/story-16127171-detail/story.html
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