A MAN who said his reason for dealing drugs was to put food on his table cried in Magistrates Court after being sentenced to five years imprisonment for possessing $7,000 worth of marijuana.
Jerome Bain, 33, of Palm Beach Street did not get the leniency he asked for from court number eight Magistrate Andrew Forbes yesterday when the magistrate considered the law’s mandatory minimum of four years on possession of dangerous drugs with intent to supply and the fact that in 2000 and 2003, Bain had served time and was fined for drug possession charges...
A MAN who said his reason for dealing drugs was to put food on his table cried in Magistrates Court after being sentenced to five years imprisonment for possessing $7,000 worth of marijuana.
Jerome Bain, 33, of Palm Beach Street did not get the leniency he asked for from court number eight Magistrate Andrew Forbes yesterday when the magistrate considered the law’s mandatory minimum of four years on possession of dangerous drugs with intent to supply and the fact that in 2000 and 2003, Bain had served time and was fined for drug possession charges...
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