When a man convicted of selling cannabis sweets came for sentence at Bristol Crown Court he had a "grim fatality" about what would happen to him. But instead of jail a judge gave him a chance to stay out of trouble and turn his life around.
It turned out Judge William Hart remembered sending Kyron Coombs to prison for two years in 2018. This time he told Coombs he would give him a chance to stay out, on the strict understanding that prison it would be if he reoffended.
Coombs, 23, of Whitefield Road, Speedwell, pleaded guilty to possessing cannabis as well as a psychoactive substance with intent to supply. He also admitted dangerous driving without a proper licence or insurance.
