Hi everyone
I am new to this forum, came across it as I am planning my defence in court or rather mitigation after pleading guilty - I am mainly interested in the statutory law side of things, I have heard that if you do not consent to any statutory law by giving your name and address they cannot persue the matter. sounds good but a little late for me - sods law!
Any way this is what happened
I was growing 5 plants in my garden - has uk cheese, trainwreck super skunk and purple lady and jock horror
I liked the look of tw, cheese and purple so I started cloning them - had about 15 in a tent in my spare room.
stupidly stoned one night I started germinating a few seeds (loads actually) these were subcool jock horror and cheese bx I put them in those root riot and propogator to see what happens.
I had just bought a homebox tent (excellent tents by the way much better than budbox) and just puts the clones in them.
I m pretty discreet and not many people knew I grow. This is because I have a real bad back and sciatica. smoking definaTELY helps with the pain.
what happened was a mate of mine had locked my window in the spare room and I could nt extract the hot air so it was just in the room flowing about. I was pissed off and frustrated that I could nt open the window but continued with the grow and decided to sort the problem out the next day BIG MISTAKE!!!!!
so I went to bed about midnight with the grow on in the spare room. I was stoned and not thinking straight.
fast forward a few hours I am woken up by my cat meowing or more like screaming. I am quite a heavy sleeper but this woke me up he managed to push my door open, not sure how he is a clever cat!
I get up look at my watch and say "Ralphy its fucking 5am I have work in a few hours I'm going back to bed". I closed my door with the cat on the other side. He kept meowing and pushed the door open again. As I got back into bed I sensed something was very wrong. I got up and saw smoke and flames. By the way there was No smoke alarm in my flat .
I went into the grow room and saw flames All the power in the flat had cut out and some curtains were on fire. FUCK! I tried to tackle it as best I could but it was not happening.
I went outside were there were a few people(neighbours i think) saying "Get out the flat its on fire we have called the fire service!!
I said thanks and went out (wearing only my boxer shorts) but then heard my cat inside meowing.
They said dont go back in the smoke will kill you. I thought about it for 2 secs and ran inside and opened the back door so Ralph could escape, there was no other way out forhim.
So I am outside the fire service come I had burned my hands and feet the carpet melted into my feet and all the skin had come off it was a bloody mess and knew what was coming next. Old bill.
So I was taken to hospital put in the high dependancy ward, a police man then appeared at my bedside and just sat there looking tired (it was 6am and he had just started his shift.
They put me on a drip, nebuliser, heart EMG and chest x ray followed. Took a while tho!!
So here I am one month later to the day.
I have lost my flat, all of my personal possessions were destroyed in the fire. Obviously the insurance will not pay out for this. Bit I am alive - if it wasnt for my cat I would be dead no question.
I could nt go work till the monday because the fire happened on a thursday morning spent 12 hours in hospital under police guard, discharged myself to find my cat who I love so much. I had to go police station on the friday to answer to street bail. So iwent to work and told them what happened I could call till the friday because of section 18 no phone calls. I didnt say what caused the fire. I was then sacked on the tuesday so I have no job
I have been charged with cultivation - first they said it was 20 plants, then 27 when in interview and then when I went to mag court they said 32. cos of all the seeds i had germinating. could have been a few more than that tho.
had to go guilty and going back for sentencing on the 11th November.
thats all just wanted to let you lot know that grows can be very dangerous and hopefully learn from my mistakes
Some good news though I learned on the tuesday that My ex girlfriend who has just given birth to a baby boy 3 months old is mine and not the bloke she left me for. A reason to live. I have stopped smoking weed cos it has fucked up my life no end.
what do you lot think will happen at Court? I am in the Uk. I do have previous for cannabis related offences the last one was Possession with intent convicted and sentenced to 200 hours community service in 2003.
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