Sunday 25 July 2010

Cannabis-Dealing Student's Dreams Destroyed


A “greedy” student whose dreams of becoming a stockbroker were shattered after being caught selling cannabis to fellow academics has walked free with a suspended prison sentence.

Faraaz Junjua, 19, of Highbury Gardens, Ilford, Essex made a name for himself selling £10.00 bags of the drug to Kingston University students and was arrested after being caught smoking cannabis twice in the same evening.

Now employed as a car salesman and living back at the family home Junjua pleaded guilty to possessing 54 gms of the drug, with intent to supply, at Seething Wells Halls of Residence, (pictured) Portsmouth Road on February 16.

Kingston-upon-Thames Crown Court heard security guards smelled cannabis coming from a room and when they investigated Junjua admitted he was responsible, pulling a small plastic bag of the drug from his pocket.

The incident was reported to management, but later that evening they investigated cannabis smoke coming from another room and again Junjua was inside with four small bags of the drug.

Police were called and under the defendant’s bed officers found a black suitcase containing ten bags of cannabis, a plastic carrier bag containing more cannabis, weighing scales and £650 cash.

When quizzed Junjua admitted selling cannabis to students for the previous three months, for £10 a bag, confessing he got “greedy” and pocketed £800 during the period.

“People like you hang around the edge of students and make money out of them,” Judge Paul Dodgson told the defendant. “If Kingston University students think it is alright to use cannabis, then they need to know it is not.”

Junjua was sentenced to twelve months’ imprisonment, suspended for two years, ordered to perform 150 hours community service, pay £300 costs and forfeit £350.

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