A 39-YEAR-OLD man pressured by his drug dealer into renting a property for use as a £15,000 cannabis farm has been sentenced to 120 hours of unpaid work.
Gary Ling, of Bracken Bank Avenue, Keighley, pleaded guilty to permitting premises to be used for the production of cannabis on June 22 last year.
Prosecutor Jonathan Sharp told Bradford Crown Court yesterday that police seized 85 cannabis plants from a house in North Dene Road, Keighley, that would have yielded three kilos of the Class B drug. The Crown accepted Ling was put under pressure by his drug dealer to clear a £15,000 debt, used as a front to rent the property and helped carry items into it.
Ling’s barrister, Giles Bridge, said he was of previous good character. The Recorder of Bradford, Judge Roger Thomas QC, said he believed the story was true.
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