Shaun McGinley was given a six month jail sentence suspended for two years

Shaun McGinley, 22, turned up at the enquiry desk and told an officer: "It's not them, it's me," said prosecutor Emma Gough.The police had arrested his mother and girlfriend after a search warrant unearthed a cannabis bush at his Middlesbrough home.McGinley, an apprentice, was at work but a neighbour phoned him saying: "Your house has just been raided."The cannabis bush was found in bags along with electronic scales and £215 cash, Teesside Crown Court was told.McGinley told police they would find two more bags of cannabis in the laundry basket on the landing, and he said that nobody else was aware of them.He said that he was planning to sell them to pay off a drugs debt, and the cannabis had a street value of £2,000.
Rachel Dyson, defending, said that McGinley owed quite a lot of money to some "particularly not nice people" and they had suggested that selling the drugs for them would be a way of reducing his debt.McGinley of Alnwick Court, Middlesbrough, was given a six month jail sentence suspended for two years with 12 months supervision, 200 hours unpaid work and ordered to pay £270 prosecution costs after he pleaded guilty to possession of a Class C drug with intent to supply on June 27.