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UK: Judge grounds Gloucester drug dealer who overslept
Gloucester Citizen Wednesday 01 Aug 2012 Judge Jamie Tabor banned Kodi Danter from going out on Friday and Saturday nights for five weeks. In April, Danter, 20, of Lakenheath, Kingsway, was ordered to do 100 hours of unpaid work after he admitted supplying cannabis. He was also placed on a community order with six months of drug rehab. But this week he was back before the court to admit that he had breached the order by missing appointments and unpaid work on May 20, June 20 and July 1. However, the court was told, he has attended 25 of his 28 appointments and has done 61 hours of the work. Nicola Berryman, his solicitor, said the problem was that Danter had overslept after going out at night at weekends. "He is very candid about that," she said. "These were occasions when he simply overslept." She admitted that he had also tested positive once for cannabis but had otherwise been clean. Judge Tabor QC retorted: "He shouldn't be taking anything at all." The judge punished Danter for the breaches by imposing a five-week tagged curfew from 7pm to 5am on Friday and Saturday nights. "You have been doing pretty well but not well enough," he said. "You have not got any excuse for oversleeping. You have got to organise your life better. You will have to stay in on those nights until you have sorted out most of this order. I don't want to see you again. And don't smoke cannabis – it's breaking the law." The judge ordered Danter to pay the prosecution's £60 costs for the hearing, telling him: "I don't see why the public should have to pay for your failure to wake up!" The court had been told at the earlier hearing that Danter was selling cannabis to "friends and associates" and texts on his mobile phone suggested he had up to 28 customers. Prosecutor Paul Grumbar told the court police stopped Danter for driving without his seatbelt on January 17. They could smell cannabis in his car so they searched him. Down the front of his trousers was a bag containing five wraps of cannabis weighing a total of 11.1 grams. He also had £525 on him and said he was on his way to buy a moped. Two mobile phones were seized from him and scales were found at his home. http://www.thisisgloucestershire.co.uk/Judge-grounds-Gloucester-drug-dealer-overslept/story-16623872-detail/story.html
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