A 39-YEAR-OLD man who in younger life spent £60 a day on cannabis has been given the choice by a judge to get off the drug - or go to prison.

Carl Thomas of Station Street, Holyhead, pleaded guilty at Caernarfon crown court to being concerned in the supply of drugs in the autumn of 2017, when cannabis worth £840 was found at his then home.

According to Philip Clemo, prosecuting, he'd told police he was part of a consortium who shared the drugs.

Matthew Curtis, defending, said after a previous drug rehabilitation sentence he'd reduced his spending from £60 a day to £30 a week, and it had subsequently gone down to £10 weekly. There had been a long delay in bringing the case.

On Thursday, Judge Huw Rees imposed a year's jail sentence, suspended for twelve months, with 150 hours of unpaid work, ten days of rehabilitation activity, and a six months drug rehabilitation order with monthly reviews and weekly testing.

Judge Rees said he'd read letters of support, including from his partner who stated that Thomas was the breadwinner for herself and as many as nine children, three of them his own.

The judge said he was concerned "about your attitude to cannabis" and said it would be selfish to his family to continue with it, otherwise he faced deprivation of his liberty.