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Cannabis grown in Inverness bedroom


By Gregor White

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Inverness Sheriff Court.
Inverness Sheriff Court.

The potential impact on the offender's young son persuaded a sheriff not to send him to prison.

Robert Zajkowski (34) admitted cultivating 37 cannabis plants in the bedroom of his Inverness home while he and his son slept in the living room of their former home in the city's Bruce Avenue.

Inverness Sheriff Court was told his intention was to sell his crop – valued at between £9250 and £33,300 – when the plants matured.

But police raided the property on May 30 last year after receiving a tip-off.

Fiscal depute Robert Weir told Sheriff Margaret Neilson that in addition to the plants £16,100.20 in cash was recovered from the property.

Zajkowski, now of Balgate Drive, Kiltarlity told police the money was a mixture of savings and a £4000 loan from a friend to fund a further crop.

He previously admitted producing cannabis between January 1 and May 30, 2018 and sentence had been deferred for a background report.

Its contents, Zajkowski’s previous good record and the impact a jail sentence would have on his son persuaded Sheriff Neilson not to jail him.

She told him: “Ordinarily a charge like this would attract a custodial sentence but I have taken these factors into account.”

She instead ordered him to carry out 300 hours of community work instead – the highest number of hours that can be given.


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