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15 months for drug producer busted after police are called to domestic incident (28 August 2015)

Date: 28/08/2015
Duncan Lewis, Crime Solicitors, 15 months for drug producer busted after police are called to domestic incident

A personal trainer discovered to have a cannabis factory at his home after police attended a domestic violence incident has told a court he grew the drug as a medication to help him overcome his own attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

Manchester Evening News reports that police were called to the home 29-year-old Scott Pearson shared with his girlfriend, after a neighbour witnessed his girlfriend Tamzin Yates, 32, being “shoved” into the property against her will and also overheard her screaming.

Police arrived to find the couple with cuts and bleeding – and went on to discover a £20,000 cannabis farm at the property in Linby Street, Hulme, Greater Manchester.

Pearson – who also works as a labourer – had 29 cannabis plants ready for harvest in a tent in his bedroom, the court heard.

He later admitted producing cannabis – but denied intending to supply the Class B drug to others. At sentencing, Pearson claimed he had never used the drug himself – but had intended to blend it into “smoothies” to try and cure his lifelong ADHD, after watching a documentary on medicinal marijuana use in the US state of Colorado.

He said that he had succeeded as a first-time grower of cannabis because he also had obsessive compulsive disorder. The judge asked him if he had ever grown “tomatoes or radishes” – Pearson admitted in court that he had not.

Pearson told the court that in the early hours of February 2 – just before police discovered the cannabis farm – he and Ms Yates had returned home and discovered their home had been broken into by two men in balaclavas, who had targeted the cannabis he was growing. Pearson claimed that damage caused to the property was the result of a fight between him and the intruders – and the assault on Ms Yates occurred after they had argued about the drugs, which she had not previously known about.

Pearson admitted common assault on Ms Yates.

Pearson was on licence for robbery at the time of the offences – Judge Steiger told the court that he had concluded Pearson’s claims to be growing cannabis for his own consumption to be “completely and utterly untrue”.

“The claim the defendant had successfully grown 29 mature plants at his first attempt is inherently improbable...” he said.

“It isn’t possible to say exactly what was in prospect at the defendant’s home, but I reject the claim that this cannabis was substantially for his own personal consumption.”

Judge Martin Steiger QC rejected Pearson’s evidence and jailed him for 15 months.

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