A cannabis producer who cultivated plants worth up to £18,900 in his flat in Stobswell has been placed on a community payback order with unpaid work.
Bryn Williamson, 34, of Baldovan Terrace, was rumbled when Scottish and Southern Energy workers arrived at his house on June 12 last year and detected a strong smell of the Class B drug, Dundee Sheriff Court was told.
Fiscal depute Sue Ruta told the court the SSE staff contacted police who attended at his flat later that day and found the flat unoccupied and locked.
“Officers looked through the letterbox and saw two large fans and what looked like a cultivation,” she said.
The officers acquired a search warrant and, on gaining entry, they found 35 cannabis plants and other herbal matter, along with scales, a laptop, gloves, packages of seeds, a thermometer and other equipment, which was seized by the police.
Ms Ruta told the court the potential value of the cultivation — one to three ounces — was estimated by drugs experts at between £6,300-£18,900, if fully grown.
However, the court was told, the plants were only seedlings and the value was nowhere near that figure.
Solicitor John Boyle told the court the purpose of the plantation was to create cannabis oil to ease Williamson’s medical condition. “It provides him with significant pain relief,” Mr Boyle said.
“He is very embarrassed at being before the court. He is a business analyst who has already been promoted several times in the short time he has been with his company.”
Williamson admitted he produced cannabis. Sheriff Lorna Drummond ordered him to complete 250 hours of unpaid work and ordered forfeiture of the plants and equipment.
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