A cannabis supplier who arrived at court in black Jaguar car – has avoided jail because he’s the sole carer of his 12 children.
Peter Saunders told Mold Crown Court how his youngest child was 19 months old but his wife had left him and married someone else.
The court heard Saunders, 47, had a dozen children aged 19 months, three, six, seven, nine, ten, 12, 13, 14, 15, 18 and 22. He’d not worked for ten years because he was unfit to do so and lived on benefits in Princess Street in Rhyl.
The defendant and his eldest son Matthew, aged 22, both admitted possessing cannabis with intent to supply after police raided their homes on December 17 last year.
Prosecuting barrister Nicholas Sefton told how police raided the father’s home and found 43 grammes of cannabis – some among Christmas presents – valued at about £450. One gramme of cannabis was found at the son’s flat and they both claimed it was for personal use.
The judge said that he would have to put the interests of the young children first and he could not send his son to prison either because they had pleaded guilty to a joint enterprise. Both received 12 month prison sentences suspended for two years.
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