Thinh Bui initially denied a cost of manufacturing the category B managed drug within the handle in Woolston.
The 20-year-old claimed to be a ‘fashionable slave’, however he has now been convicted of the offence and jailed.
On December 27, officers from Cheshire Police had been known as to a property on Berkshire Drive in Woolston following intelligence reviews of a hashish develop.
On attendance, police reported a robust scent suspected to be the managed class B drug hashish, vegetation of which had been discovered on entry into an handle.
A suspect was arrested on the scene, and a person was charged with manufacturing of hashish.
Thinh Bui, of no mounted handle, made a primary look earlier than Chester Magistrates’ Court docket two days later, on December 29, in relation to the cost.
The particulars of the cost alleged that Bui produced 164 hashish vegetation.
Bui confirmed his private particulars however didn’t enter a plea to the cost, and district decide John McGarva subsequently despatched the case to the crown courtroom.
The defendant appeared earlier than Liverpool Crown Court docket in February for a plea and trial preparation listening to, by way of video hyperlink from HM Jail Altcourse and assisted by a Vietnamese interpreter.
Right here, his defence counsel, Jeremy Rawson knowledgeable the courtroom how a earlier plea listening to was adjourned to permit for the submitting of Dwelling Workplace documentation.
Bui entered a not responsible plea to the cost, with a trial date mounted for the week commencing June 17 and a point out listening to on Could 24.
However at this point out listening to, Bui was convicted, with the case continuing to condemn him to 10 months fast imprisonment.
