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UK: Plymouth man who sold cannabis avoids prison sentence
Plymouth Herald Saturday 21 Jul 2012 AN UNEMPLOYED plasterer who sold cannabis to friends to repay a £3,000 cocaine debt has escaped a jail term after a court heard he had beaten his addiction. Prosecutor Alastair Verheijen told Plymouth Crown Court that when police raided Scott Everson's home in Torridge Way, Efford, on February 2, they found 110g of herbal cannabis, £2,200 cash and scales. Everson, 36, told them he had a heavy cocaine habit and had racked up a £3,000 debt. He was weighing and wrapping cannabis at home and selling it to friends to clear the debt, but intended to stop when it was repaid, he said. He admitted the £2,200 was the proceeds of drug sales and disclaimed the cash. Jo Martin, for Everson, said that between February and May, with the help of his GP and the Harbour Centre, he had "cleaned up his act" and beaten his addiction to cocaine. He had offered early guilty pleas and made full admissions, she said. Miss Martin said Everson had now found work, though as a labourer at a building site in the city centre, not in his trained occupation as a plasterer, and currently lived with his mother. Judge Graham Cottle commented: "This is the second plasterer we've had this morning. "The first was confident of getting work, this one hasn't any." He told Everson: "You got yourself into serious debt as a result of taking drugs. "This is a very familiar story and no mitigation at all. "However, you have no previous convictions and were extremely frank in your interview with the police. "You have managed to overcome your problem with drugs, got yourself back into work and your life has returned to something like normal." Judge Cottle said the offences of possessing a class B drug with intent to supply and supplying a class B drug, which Everson had admitted, must be marked by a jail sentence. But he added: "But I am prepared to suspend it as you are back on the straight and narrow, living a useful life." He sentenced Everson to nine months in jail, suspended for two years, and ordered him to do 150 hours of unpaid community work. http://www.thisisplymouth.co.uk/Plymouth-man-sold-cannabis-avoids-prison-sentence/story-16573248-detail/story.html
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