Harry Potter Bully Jamie Waylett Drug Sentence

[Jim Finnel]

British actor Jamie Waylett, who plays obnoxious school bully Vincent Crabbe in the Harry Potter movies, has been sentenced to 120 hours of community service by an English District Court for growing canabis at his mother’s home.

Waylett was arrested with a friend after he took a photo of police as the pair drove past. When police searched his friend’s car they found a number of bags of cannabis.

A search of Waylett’s mothers house found a sophisticated hydroponics system set up in one of the bedrooms, with 10 marijuana plants growing.

Waylett’s friend, John Innis, who admitted illegally possessing 11 bags of cannabis and a knife, was sentenced to six weeks’ custody in a young offenders’ institution, and fined £500 (about $US820).

District judge Timothy Workman told Waylett, who turned 20 Tuesday, that the cannabis cultivation was on a small, but sophisticated scale.

“Mr. Waylett, I accept that the cultivation of this cannabis was on a small scale, and this was not in any way a commercial venture on your part. Nevertheless you used a sophisticated growing system to do so”.

Passing sentence Judge Workman gave credit to Waylett for pleading guilty and for cooperating with the police.

Growing canabis in the UK carries a maximum 14-year sentence.


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[dfw-guy]

I hope we follow the UK's lead, I don't want to think what would have happened if he was a USA citizen.

 

[Jim Finnel]

Waylett was arrested with a friend after he took a photo of police as the pair drove past.

this is probable cause for a search in the UK? or do they need probable cause in the UK?

“Mr. Waylett, I accept that the cultivation of this cannabis was on a small scale, and this was not in any way a commercial venture on your part. Nevertheless you used a sophisticated growing system to do so”.

what difference does how it was grown make?

 

[Steve McStoferson]

this is probable cause for a search in the UK? or do they need probable cause in the UK?

what difference does how it was grown make?

i was wondering the same thing. do the cannabis laws in the UK take into consideration the sophistication of the growing materials when determining if the individual broke the law?

just doesn't make sense how that is relevant to anything.

 

[Propa Gator]

Searched the car and moms' house, huh. Found living plants proof of sophistication, oh my. How big was the knife, I like the big ones. You don't want to piss off the cops, and these are camera shy.

 

[maryjaneplz]

oh that's nice for him. geez.