Supervision order for man caught with drugs and stun gun

1:57pm Tuesday 23rd October 2012 in News Photograph of the Author By Neil Hunter

A MAN caught with hundreds of pounds worth of drugs and a stun gun walked free from court after a judge heard he had never used the weapon.

Craig Buckton, 26, claimed he found the Tasar-style gun and simply put it in a drawer in the kitchen of his home in South Bank, Middlesbrough.

His lawyer, Andrew Teate, told Teesside Crown Court today (Tuesday, October 23): “He had never taken it out, never brandished it or used it in any way to threaten.”

The gun was found when police searched Buckton's home following his arrest in Middlesbrough town centre for a drugs offence on January 26.

Prosecutor Jenny Haigh told the court that when his car was stopped on Longlands Road, officers found more than £300 worth of cocaine in bags.

Mr Teate said father-of-one Buckton was hoping to get a job off-shore and had never been in trouble other than for a matter of drink-driving years ago.

Buckton, of Achilles Court, South Bank, was given an 18-month supervision order after admitting possessing a prohibited weapon and Class A drugs.

Comments(8)

Consett87 says...
4:34pm Tue 23 Oct 12

Is this judge for real or what

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Consett87 says...
4:34pm Tue 23 Oct 12

Is this judge for real or what

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Blankface says...
4:47pm Tue 23 Oct 12

Consett87 wrote:
Is this judge for real or what
Of course he's for real, where else is he going to get his coke from.

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BLOBBY35 says...
5:16pm Tue 23 Oct 12

i think its time the judges got a mot like the doctors

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maxmum says...
5:29pm Tue 23 Oct 12

Silly old **** of a judge will wait until he kills somebody with a real gun that he claims he found, and give him 4 years for manslaughter because he didn't mean to do it.

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NO EINSTEIN says...
6:31pm Tue 23 Oct 12

The judge later said, "I am disgusted at the ridicule i have received at my sentencing, the next thing people will be saying is that there is no fairies at the bottom of my garden, and the moon is made of yogurt, and not cream cheese"

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stevegg says...
7:45pm Tue 23 Oct 12

Another example of our joke of an injustice system which puts offenders first, criminals are laughing as they are clearly untouchable unless they commit the worst of crimes! Crime does pay!

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Daza says...
9:32pm Tue 23 Oct 12

Ah!

It is clearly now worth the risk to deal drugs instead of getting a real job.

Camerons 'Big Society' at its best.

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