A get-tough judge - determined to stamp-out illegal DIY cannabis farms - has jailed a commercial grower for fourteen months after police found twenty-nine plants.
Salesman Peter Windle, 25, of Crossways, Middleton-on-Sea, West Sussex had installed heaters and lamps in the privately rented flat, but was exposed by a suspicious letting agent.
“The gravity of the offence is two-fold,” announced senior Chichester Crown Court Judge William Wood QC.
“People like you who get addicted to cannabis lack the motivation to work and there is also the long-term mental damage.
“It is a dreadfully serious problem, this growing of skunk cannabis.”
Windle pleaded guilty to cultivating cannabis at the address, which was raided by police on October 9, last year, and Judge Wood rejected claims it was for personal use.
“I don’t believe that those who grow cannabis and distribute it to other people are going to get suspended sentences,” added the judge.
Windle confessed to having a heavy ten-year cannabis habit, smoking 6gms per day and having a conviction for possession of the drug last year.
“The reality is it is not practicable to think of a community sentence, we need to stamp out cannabis growth,” announced Judge Wood.
An order was made confiscating the cannabis plants and growing equipment.
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