Prison warning for Wollaton cannabis grower
AFTER clocking up a £2,600 electricity bill and smashing a ten-inch hole in the wall to grow cannabis, a drug user has avoided jail.
Paul Naylor, 29, of Trowell Road, Wollaton, was found with six cannabis plants at a rented home in Stapleford.
Reflectors and lights were found at an address in Harriet Street, where Naylor had amassed months of arrears on his rent and made a ten-inch hole to install an extractor fan.
An expert said the plants were capable of producing 2.5 kilograms of the Class B drug, but Naylor insists it was grown for personal use.
Naylor is now in employment and living with his parents.
He is working with the Citizens Advice Bureau to pay off his debts to the electricity company.
Recorder Richard Swain, sentencing, said: “It’s a serious offence. The evidence points towards the fact that you had grown cannabis for your own use only.
“Rest assured that if you dabble in drugs in a criminal fashion again, then this will be taken into account and the likelihood is that you will go to prison.”
Naylor was given a supervised community order for 15 months, during which he will have to report to probation officers. Payment for the damage and electric bill arrears will be dealt with through the civil court.
Prison warning for Wollaton cannabis grower
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