A MAN caught growing cannabis bought a £500 haul of the drug with a “social security”loan meant for furniture, a court was told.
James Alfred Thomas Ormerod, 48, who was on £70 a week incapacity benefits, spent double that on cannabis and was said to have made up the shortfall by doing roofing and decorating jobs and not declaring it, Burnley magistrates heard.
Ormerod who had a try at cultivating cannabis, used a by-passed electricity meter.
The defendant, of Townhouse Road, Nelson, admitted abs-tracting electricity, cultivating eight cannabis plants, possessing 494.3 grammes of cannabis resin and possessing 166 grammes of cannabis bush. He was given a six week curfew, between 8pm and 7am.
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