A SMALL time cannabis dealer offered refunds to clients who were not satisfied with the quality of his product.
David Buckle was found with compromising texts on his phone when it was seized by police in an unrelated inquiry.
They showed he was selling to a small group of friends who would go to his home in Newton Abbot to pick up their cannabis.
One message was from a dissatisfied customer who complained that the drugs were of poor quality. Buckle texted back telling him to bring it straight back.
Buckle, aged 24, of Margaret Road, Newton Abbot, admitted being concerned in the supply of a class B drug and was curfewed for six months and ordered to do 15 days rehabilitation activity with the probation service by Recorder Mr James Watson at Exeter Crown Court.
He told him: ’You have conceded very frankly this was not a one off exercise but it arose from your own use of cannabis. There is no evidence of paraphernalia or profit.’
Mr Brian Fitzherbert, prosecuting, said Buckle’s phone was seized in July last year and found to have texts offering cannabis to a group of people who were all named contacts in his list.
He said: ’All the messages dated from the days immediately before the seizure of the phone but one message inquired whether the new batch was any good, which indicates previous supply.’
Mr William Parkhill, mitigating, said Buckle had been using cannabis since he was 11 and was supplying friends who were fellow users more as a favour than to make money.
He said the dealing was at the bottom end of the scale, with friends asking if they can come round ‘for a g’, meaning a gram.
He said: ’One text exchange was with a friend who said the cannabis wasn’t very good. He replied ‘bring it back’, which was not something you would expect from someone who was in it for financial gain.’