Reading Magistrates' Court: Calcot cannabis grower caught with sword
Published: 05:00, 14 February 2023
POLICE who raided the home of a suspect found cannabis plants and a Samurai sword.
In the dock at Reading Magistrates' Court on Thursday, February 2, was Simon Williams.
The 37-year-old, of David Smith Court, Calcot, admitted cultivating three cannabis plants, a controlled drug of Class B, at his home on Thursday, January 19.
He further pleaded guilty to possessing a Samurai sword in his bedroom on the same occasion.
Mr Williams, who was legally represented by Simon Hammudi, was fined a total of £160.
In addition, he was ordered to pay £85 costs, plus a statutory victim services surcharge of £64.
Finally, he was ordered to forfeit both the drugs and the sword in order for them to be destroyed.
