STUDENT WITH BULK-BUY CANNABIS EVICTED FROM HALL OF RESIDENCE

A STUDENT was thrown out of his hail of residence after police and security
guards found a 465 pound block of cannabis resin hidden under his bed.

Stirling Sheriff Court was told that guards at Stirling University raided
the room of second year undergraduate Douglas Cullens after receiving
complaints about a noisy party.

Fiscal depute Joe Cahill said they found the room packed and the air thick
with smoke.

They alerted police who searched the room, found the cannabis, and arrested
Cullens.

Yesterday, Cullens, 18, now of Ochil Road, Alva, Clackmannanshire, pleaded
guilty to possessing the controlled drug in his former room in Geddes Hall,
Stirling University, on October 23 last year.

His plea of not guilty to being concerned in the supply of cannabis was
accepted.

Defence agent Alistair Ross said Cullens had been offered the cannabis at
an advantageous price on the condition he bought in bulk. He said: "Having
just received his student loan, he succumbed to temptation to buy a fairly
sizeable amount to last him to the end of term."

He said Cullens' arrest and detention by Central Scotland Police drugs
squad had given him a considerable fright and, as a result of the offence,
he had been asked to leave the university halls.

Sheriff Ray Small fined Cullens, a first offender, 150 pounds.