29th
May 2015
A serial offending tenant when caught red-handed with a stash of cannabis told the police that it was the landlords and nothing to do with him.
The Leeds police uncovered cannabis hidden away in the tenant’s flat in the loft. The cannabis was in ten bags and its street market value was in excess of £2,000. The Crown Court was told that all of the bags had the tenant’s fingerprints on.
The tenant had told police officers that he was threatened by his landlord if he did not carry out his orders to put the illegal drugs in the flat’s loft.
He was arrested within a week, at his mother’s and again had an amount of cannabis on him.
The serial offender was restrained and arrested at the end of February this year, when neighbours at a different address called the police because various items were being thrown out of the tower block.
At the time of his last arrest he was found to be carrying a ball bearing gun and a knife. The police had no other option than to use a taser on him as he was also “high” on cannabis and was throwing out threats; he has been in prison on remand awaiting the court hearing.
He admitted to being guilty of possessing of cannabis to supply, he also pleaded guilty of three offences of possessing cannabis, criminal damage and threatening behaviour.
The judge handed him a 12-month community and drug rehabilitation requirement order.
Judge James Spencer, QC, said: “That will give you the encouragement that you will need if you are going to break this drugs habit.”
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