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Liverpool man jailed for drug growing and grenade possession offences (12 March 2014)
Date: 12/03/2014
A man from Liverpool has been jailed for 18 months for setting up a small-scale cannabis farm at his home as well as possessing a military-grade explosive device.
Forty-four-year-old Stephen Menagh was caught by police in April last year following a raid on his home in Edge Hill due to suspicions that he may be growing class C drugs. Liverpool Crown Court heard that a smoke grenade was also found on a living room table during the raid.
Mr Derek Jones, prosecuting, spoke of the potentially lethal consequences associated with such a device, which contained over 200 grams of explosive material, as it could have suffocated people or started a fire if used within a property or other enclosed area.
Judge Denis Watson QC added: “You clearly realised that this item had some value to you in the sense that you chose to keep it. It seems to me that this was likely to be used or to be handed on to somebody else probably involved in drugs, given your background in drugs that existed at the time.”
Menagh, who has over 80 previous recorded offences including armed robbery, pleaded guilty to handling the grenade and to separate drugs charges after eight plants were found being grown in his Newstead Road flat. He is likely to serve half of his sentence.
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