Grief-stricken son set up drugs farm after parents died
GRIEVING Daniel King has been jailed after setting up a cannabis factory in his loft.
The 27-year-old turned to drugs following the death of his parents, and grew cannabis plants at his Joiners Square home to avoid contact with dealers.
But police raided the Cornes Street property in December and found 22 plants and equipment such as heating lamps, transformers and hydroponics trays.
They also discovered that King had bypassed his electricity meter in order to power the farm.
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King was jailed for 16 months at Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court after pleading guilty to producing cannabis and abstracting electricity.
Prosecutor David Bennett told the court that King's factory could have produced cannabis worth up to £3,500 in a single crop, while the stolen electricity was valued at £1,743.
Mr Bennett said: "At 10pm on December 14 police officers attended the address after being told there was a burglary in progress at the premises. They could smell cannabis, and saw a trail of cannabis leaves leading from the rear living room up the stairs.
"In the loft area they found a greenhouse-like structure with three hydroponics trays and 22 cannabis plants. The officers left the premises and when the defendant returned they arrested him in the street outside."
Mr Bennett told the court that at the time of King's arrest he had a suspended sentence of six months hanging over him.
This dated from a conviction for assault occasioning actual bodily harm from 2010.
Angela Berrisford, mitigating, said King had struggled to cope with the death of his parents and had suffered mental health issues.
She said: "His parents died in relatively quick succession and he has struggled to deal with that. His mental health deteriorated and he has suffered from depression and psychosis.
"What he realised following his conviction for assault is that he was drinking too much. Unfortunately he did not go back to get medical support, but effectively substituted the alcohol with cannabis.
"He didn't want to associate with the people who supplied him with cannabis, and so he decided to produce the cannabis himself. He undertook limited research on the internet, but a lot of the equipment was not set up, as he did not have the knowledge to work out what went where."
Judge Robert Trevor-Jones sentenced King to 12 months for growing cannabis, three months consecutive for abstracting electricity, and activated one month of his suspended sentence.
He said: "You clearly and deliberately set about establishing sufficient equipment at your disposal to successful grow a crop of cannabis in the loft of your home.
"But I accept that the cannabis was for your own use."




Comments
by DJofTNE
Monday, September 17 2012, 8:04PM
“ALCOHOL KILLS PEOPLE ON A DAILY BASIS, ALCOHOL TURNS PEOPLE INTO MONSTERS, ALCOHOL HARMS YOUR BODY, ALCOHOL DESTROYS FAMILIES, DRINK DRIVERS KILL, YET NOTHING FROM FISSIONCHIPS ON THIS SUBJECT, I WONDER WHY? DONT WANT TO ADMIT YOU HATE YOURSELF, YOUR FAMILY AND YOUR FRIENDS?”
by Redtone
Sunday, September 16 2012, 3:01PM
“It would be cool if all the grown ups agreed to ignore him... might even get to hear interesting opinions. You know, like pretend he's not even there?”
by lemoncandy
Sunday, September 16 2012, 2:25PM
“People like fissionchips prove you dont have to be a drug user to live a meaningless pathetically sad life. You can be completely sober, apart from caffeine/alcohol/tobacco/pharmaceuticals, and still be a loser scumbag living under a bridge. People like fissionchips prove you dont have to be a drug user to have lost your mind and gone insane.”
by fissionchips
Sunday, September 16 2012, 11:17AM
“REVEILLE and ENCORE
Good morning STONERS.
Stoners heads will be swimming this morning when they filled themselves to the limit last night with booze, fags and cannabis in fact anything to help them forget what scumbags they are. They will be feeling vulnerable, fragile and paranoid when they wake and so I'd better wake them to with a song.
You've got me under your skin
You've got me deep in the brain of you
So deep in your brain I'm really a part of you
You've got me under your skin
You tried so not to give in
I said to myself this humiliation will go so well
But why should you try to resist when, stoner, you know darn well
You've got me under your skin
Hehehehe ;-) .”
by fissionchips
Sunday, September 16 2012, 1:59AM
“By this time on a Sunday morning Stoners will now have a belly full of beer, smoked a pack of fags, had a coffee (that's sensible) and will now be lighting or just had a huge spliff in the hope that it will tell them that they are not scumbags, but like them, we know that they are and they also stink.
Here's for the stoner's dreams
CANNABIS IS ILLEGAL
CANNABIS WILL ALWAYS BE ILLEGAL
STONERS ARE CRIMINALS
STONERS WILL ALWAYS BE CRIMINALS
CANNABIS IS THE FIRST STEP TO HARD DRUGS
CANNABIS HAS THEREFORE KILLED MILLIONS
STONERS ARE DANGEROUS SCUM
Nighty night stoners, hope the bed bugs bite. Ooooooooooooooooo paranoia, paranoia, paranoia being bitten when stoned hehehehehehe,”
by SourAlienOG
Sunday, September 16 2012, 1:40AM
“http://tinyurl.com/9jm2lvh”
by SourAlienOG
Sunday, September 16 2012, 1:22AM
“@Johntoe
Perfectly put, the whole thing about cannabis users and personal hygiene stems from Anslinger's racial abuse towards Black and Mexican people. The rest, paranoia, poor memory, brain damage, reefer madness propaganda. Dont get me wrong, im not denying its potential for harm, but as you say, its about the same as coffee. Im with you on the alcohol and tobacco thing, it amazes me the **** fissionfullretard comes out with, yet people like that are comfy knowing those two legal drugs (which are class A's but shhhh thats okay its 'cos legal) are being sold in sweetshops and supermarkets. On full display usually where the cash is handed over. Yet prohibitionists dont mind criminals selling cannabis without regulation to who ever what ever age, because they cannot comprehend the fact that in order to full control something it has to be legally regulated. People are blaming the cannabis itself for disorder in society, failing to realize the drugs policy which handed to the control to criminals by disallowing regulation is to blame. An interesting read -
http://tinyurl.com/9vjvkpz
@Redtone
I wouldnt be surprised if they where kids, then again trolls come in all ages so them being adults wouldnt surprise me either. People like fissionchips have deluded themselves into believing they are on a mission, when in reality if he/she/they stepped back for one sec to actually read the nonsense they post, im sure 'embarrassed' would be an understatement. Instead its spiral of denial will cause troll to go round and round in circles playing mental gymnastics with itself until it drops flat on its face from the nausea. lol”
by Redtone
Sunday, September 16 2012, 1:01AM
“Arguing with children... I swear!”
by Johntoe
Sunday, September 16 2012, 12:30AM
“@ SourAlienOG
I have said it till I am tired of saying it mate, I don't use cannabis, I HAVE used it, but I don't anymore because I have stopped smoking altogether,
I turn 60 next june and decided it was time to stop, NOT because I was concerned about the effect of cannabis on my health, but because of concern about tobacco, and now I've stopped I will never smoke again,
But futilechump doesn't believe me, not that I care, But, I bet if I announced that I had started again, he wouldn't hesitate for one second to believe me, Because, that's the nature of his 'affliction' he, like SO many of the hard of thinking, only believe what they want to believe,
No amount of 'polite' invitations to have an adult and rational debate will ever be accepted, Because they know they will lose,
So instead they 'divert' attention away from having a debate, by throwing insults, calling people 'criminals' etc,
I mean, if he/they are SO certain of their position, so certain that "stoners" are... "thick,.... have their brains fried,.. their IQs lowered, their memories shot,.. suffer from psychotic delusions, and are paranoid...... maaaaaaaaaaaan" (oh, and lets not forget the 'argument winner' "they smell")
WHAT are these intellectual supermen so afraid of?, surely they could wipe the floor in any head to head debate with a "brain fried stoner"?
SEE, it thinks (thinks haha) that I want to reform the drug laws just because I'm afraid of "THE BIG RED KEY" which is odd, cause in the 30+ years that I was an everyday smoker of weed it was never used on MY door once, nor was I afraid that it might be, so I'm hardly going to be 'afraid' now that I no longer smoke it am I?
OR that I want a drugs 'free for all'.......... WRONG!!!
I want tighter and stricter controls on ALL recreational drugs, regardless of their current legal status, the controls and laws should be based on 'harm' to the individual and to society, Which would put alcohol up near heroin and crack, and cannabis around where coffee would be,
the legal age should be increased to 21,
This would at a stroke, save BILLIONS in taxes, protect our young, and drive the majority of criminal drug gangs out of business,
OR, we could stick our fingers in our ears like flushedchips and hope drugs get 'un-invented' shouting SCUM every now and then while we wait for that to happen?”
by Redtone
Saturday, September 15 2012, 5:52PM
“At least that's sorted.”