A man who had cannabis plants worth up to £24,000 growing in his bedroom has been spared jail.
Sibu Ngema, 44, was said to have helped grow the plants in Wrexham for someone else to pay off a drugs debt.
A judge at Mold Crown Court today gave him a nine-month jail sentence suspended for a year.
The court heard Ngema pleaded guilty to being concerned in the production of cannabis at an address in Ponciau, Wrexham, between March 1 and December 18 in 2019.
Prosecutor Jemma Gordon said officers called at the property just before midday on December 18, 2019.
They found drugs paraphernalia for cannabis production in an upstairs bedroom and loft. There were dead plants there.
In a back bedroom, they found 29 “live, large cannabis plants” worth between just over £8,000 and £24,000, depending on the yield.
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The police also found heat lamps, dehumidifiers and growing trays.
There had been an “unsuccessful” attempt to bypass the mains electricity supply.
Ms Gordon said Ngema admitted his part.
He told police he had had a cocaine debt and was woken in the early hours of one morning.
He was ordered to leave his home and was placed “under pressure” to allow his property to be used by others. He had to help unload a van.
By letting others use his premises, his drug debt would come down, said the prosecutor.
Simon Rogers, defending Ngema, said the…
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A man who had cannabis plants worth up to £24,000 growing in his bedroom has been spared jail.
Sibu Ngema, 44, was said to have helped grow the plants in Wrexham for someone else to pay off a drugs debt.
A judge at Mold Crown Court today gave him a nine-month jail sentence suspended for a year.
The court heard Ngema pleaded guilty to being concerned in the production of cannabis at an address in Ponciau, Wrexham, between March 1 and December 18 in 2019.
Prosecutor Jemma Gordon said officers called at the property just before midday on December 18, 2019.
They found drugs paraphernalia for cannabis production in an upstairs bedroom and loft. There were dead plants there.
In a back bedroom, they found 29 “live, large cannabis plants” worth between just over £8,000 and £24,000, depending on the yield.
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The police also found heat lamps, dehumidifiers and growing trays.
There had been an “unsuccessful” attempt to bypass the mains electricity supply.
Ms Gordon said Ngema admitted his part.
He told police he had had a cocaine debt and was woken in the early hours of one morning.
He was ordered to leave his home and was placed “under pressure” to allow his property to be used by others. He had to help unload a van.
By letting others use his premises, his drug debt would come down, said the prosecutor.
Simon Rogers, defending Ngema, said the…
