A 50-YEAR-OLD man who bypassed the electricity meter to heat a cannabis farm at a house in Bradford has been spared an immediate prison sentence.
Paul Wormald was caught with 20 cannabis plants and a tub of the harvested Class B drug, together worth almost £9,000, when police raided an address in Buttershaw Lane, Bradford, on June 7 last year.
He pleaded guilty to production of cannabis, possession of cannabis with intent to supply, abstraction of electricity and possession of cannabis.
Wormald, now living in Leeds, had settled down with a new partner in the year since he committed the offences, his barrister Stephen Wood told Bradford Crown Court yesterday.
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He was a cannabis user who supplied to friends and associates.
Wormald was sentenced to 15 months imprisonment, suspended for two years, with a three-month curfew order.
He was ordered to pay £628 compensation to the electricity company.
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