09/02/2008 00:00:00
UK: Drug Dealer Jailed
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A DRUG addict caught selling cannabis from his flat in Penrith has been
sent to prison for 12 months.
Craig Tunstall, 20, pleaded guilty at Carlisle Crown Court to possessing
the drug with intent to supply it.
The court heard he was living at Impact Housing’s Pategill House after
becoming homeless when staff became suspicious of what he was doing and
searched his room. They found signs of drug dealing and later discovered
he had hidden four bags of cannabis in the cistern in the bathroom.
His barrister Brendan Burke said Tunstall, who had a “runaway cannabis
addiction”, had sold the class C drug to “those foolish enough to have
the same interests as himself”.
He had now given up drugs and was determined to give up crime, he said.
The court heard probation staff believed Tunstall, who has recently been
living in Bridge Street, Appleby, was “again consorting with previous
criminal associates” and showing a disregard for court orders.
Judge Paul Batty QC said he was an example of the harm cannabis could do.
http://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/viewarticle.aspx?id=598541
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