A WORCESTER judge remanded a drug dealer in custody after deciding it was just delaying the inevitable.
Joshua Jones has previously admitted four charges of being concerned in the supply of a controlled drug of class B (cannabis); concerned in the supply of a Class A drug (cocaine); concerned in the supply of a class A drug (ecstasy) and acquire/use/possessing criminal property.
The offences took place between July 10, 2020 and April 10, 2021.
The 23-year-old appeared at Worcester Magistrates Court on Thursday, (October 20), for his sentencing.
But at the start of the hearing Jason Aris, representing Jones, explained it couldn't go ahead as a pre-sentence report had not been completed.
Mr Aris said: "The defendant got his dates confused when the report was.
"Regrettably there isn't a report today."
Mr Aris asked for an adjournment and for Jones to continue to have bail.
Judge Martin Jackson said: "If custody is inevitable is there any reason not to withdraw bail today?"
Mr Aris said Jones had attended all court hearings, including ones where he had no legal representation, adding: "There is no suggestion he is a bail risk."
The judge said, given the failure to get the report done and because he is going to jail anyway, he would take bail away and send him straight to custody.
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The judge added Jones, of Ramsons Close, Malvern, would appear for his sentencing on November 17 with the report to be completed in the meantime.
We reported in July that Jones' co-accused David De Bishopp had narrowly avoided being sent to prison.
Magistrates heard the 25-year-old had been peer pressurised into dealing cannabis in Malvern between July 7, 2020, and April 10, 2021.
Cannabis, valued at around £360, had been found at a Malvern property De Bishoppe was living at following a police search there on April 10 last year.
De Bishoppe, of Victoria Road, Malvern, was given a 26-week jail sentence, suspended for 12 months.
De Bishoppe, who attended court on crutches after falling off his push bike, was also ordered to pay costs of £185 and a victim surcharge of £128 at his sentencing at Worcester Magistrates Court.
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