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By Gloucestershire Echo | Posted: October 22, 2014
Cannabis grower's 12-week growth plan 'fastest I've ever heard of', says judge
A CANNABIS grower experimenting with plants by trying to cultivate them in clay will have to wait to find out if he will be sent to prison.
Alex Dennett admitted to being concerned in the production of the class B drug between June 1 and July 17 last year following a raid at his Cheltenham home.
Gloucester Crown Court heard police discovered seven plants, said to be worth at least £1,960, growing in the basement of his home.
Prosecutor Julian Kesner said along with the drugs, electronic and digital scales, as well as £380 in cash, were discovered.
Judge Jamie Tabor QC said: "He thought he could grow them in 12 weeks, which is the fastest I have heard of.
"He was experimenting putting them in clay.”
The court heard Dennett pleaded guilty to the offence earlier this year on the basis the drugs were for his personal use.
In April his sentencing was deferred for six months and Dennett was warned if he could stay out of trouble and come up with negative drugs tests for cannabis he would avoid going straight to prison.
Dennett told the judge he had provided two negative cannabis tests with the latest coming from a hair, rather than urine test.
Judge Tabor replied: “Hair is much more effective because it tells you what is going on long term.
"He has been clean since August and so he has done what I told him to do.
"Having been an extremely hard cannabis user he has stopped it."
But the prosecutor said in January this year another matter, which predated this, meant he had been charged with supplying the same drug.
Dennett is due in front of the same court for that next month.
Judge Tabor said he would have to put off sentencing Dennett again for the production matter until that was dealt with.
He questioned why that matter had taken so long to be charged and come before him.
He said: “I am going to have to adjourn until that has been dealt with.
"If I had been made aware of it, I would have hurried that up."
"Stay out of trouble for goodness sake," the judge told him.
"I am," Dennett of Avon Road, Oakley, replied.
With regards to the production matter, the judge said: "If this is all I have got to deal with you for and providing you stay out of trouble, I will not send you to prison."
He made a confiscation order for the cash discovered in the raid."
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