Man caught with cannabis a fortnight after previous drug sentence

37-year-old fined £600

A Ramsey man has been fined £600 after police caught him with cannabis just a fortnight after he was sentenced for possessing the drug.

Police searched Mark Peter Richards' home, on North Shore Road, on 3 September last year and found 3.3 grams of the Class B drug which had a street value of £66.

At Douglas Courthouse the 37-year-old admitted possession of it; Richards’ advocate told the court he’d been ‘self-medicating’.

Fining Richards, and ordering him to pay prosecution costs of £125, Deputy High Bailiff Rachael Braidwood told him he had a ‘large number’ of previous convictions for the same offence.

Noting that he was now obtaining the drug via prescription she added: “It’s clear that you’ve been a regular user of cannabis.”