Parents dob in their own son to police after finding his cannabis stash in the garden shed
AN 18-YEAR-OLD has appeared in court after his parents called police to tell them they had found his cannabis stash.
AN 18-YEAR-OLD has appeared in court after his parents called police to tell them they had found his cannabis stash.
Joshua Billen told police he had been dealing the drug to fund his own five-year addiction.
His parents had found foil wraps in a bag in the garden shed of the family home at Rugby Road in Resolven.
When police asked him if the drugs were his, he replied: "That's mine, I've been dealing."
He was then arrested.
In his interview he told officers he had a serious cannabis addiction and had been using the drug for five years.
He said he had been working for the family business as a book keeper which paid him £250 a week and he received £125 a week in pocket money but he said most of that money went on buying drugs.
He had begun reselling it to his friends and would spend his profits on cannabis, prosecutor Linda Baker told city magistrates.
He wouldn't tell police who he bought the drug from.
Steve Harrett, representing Billen, told the court: "It was clearly a very difficult decision for his parents but one as responsible parents they took."
A pre-sentence report was prepared on Billen and Judge Richard Williams then made him subject to a community order.
As part of that he will have to complete a substance misuse programme.
The judge ordered forfeiture of the drugs and told him to pay £85 in costs and a £60 surcharge.
http://www.southwales-eveningpost.co.uk/Parents-18-year-old-cannabis-user-police-finding/story-21650049-detail/story.html 17/07/2014
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