Judge Rejects Dealer's Claim £50,000 Cannabis Farm Was for Personal Use
Scott Beveridge told the court he only wanted to smoke it. The judge didn't buy a word of it.
Beveridge, 33, was handed a suspended prison sentence at Liverpool Crown Court on Monday after turning three rooms of his rented Fazakerley home into a cannabis production line worth up to £53,928.
What Police Found
Officers who attended Beveridge's rented home on Amanda Road on 29 April found 107 cannabis plants growing across three separate rooms.
Prosecutor Shannon Stewart told the court the grow had an expected yield of between 2.9kg and 8.9kg, with a potential value ranging from £11,985 to £53,928.
No one was present at the property during the raid, though Beveridge handed himself in at a police station just over a week later, on 9 May.
What Beveridge Claimed
Beveridge accepted under interview that he was responsible for the plants but told officers he "wasn't sure what he was going to do with them."
The court heard he no longer advances the claim that the crop, worth potentially over £50,000, was intended for his own personal use.
Why the Judge Wasn't Convinced
The judge said she did not "for one minute" accept any suggestion the production-scale grow was for personal consumption.
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Beveridge was ultimately handed a suspended prison sentence, with the judge warning it would "probably" be his "last chance" given his history as a three-time convicted drug dealer.
💭 TheTrendsWire's Take
Three rooms turned into a coordinated grow operation, an expected yield running into kilograms, and a defendant who's already been convicted of dealing three times before — none of that reads as a personal-use setup, and the fact that Beveridge himself dropped the claim before sentencing suggests even his own legal team saw it wasn't going anywhere. The real story here is the suspended sentence itself: judges are increasingly using "last chance" warnings on repeat drug offenders rather than immediate custody, a pattern worth watching given how explicitly this one was framed as a final warning.
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TL;DR
- Scott Beveridge, 33, was handed a suspended sentence after a cannabis farm was found in his rented Fazakerley home.
- Police found 107 plants across three rooms, with a potential value up to £53,928.
- Beveridge initially claimed the crop was for personal use but no longer advances that claim.
- The judge rejected the personal-use claim outright and warned the sentence was likely his "last chance."
- Beveridge is a three-time convicted drug dealer.
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