Connor Griffiths turned violent as he was detained
A drug supplier turned violent and tried to flee when he was stopped by plain-clothes police in a boutique metropolis centre lodge in Cardiff. Connor Griffiths, who was concerned in promoting crack cocaine and cocaine, was handcuffed and arrested within the reception of the Resort Indigo .
A search of his iPhone afterwards confirmed the defendant was promoting the Class A medication and dealing for a 3rd occasion named as “Roger”, Newport Crown Courtroom was informed. The police arrived on the lodge after receiving a tip-off. After they searched room 501. which Griffiths was utilizing, a amount of the medicine had been discovered.
When the defendant waked again into the foyer of town centre lodge the plain-clothed officers arrested him however he turned violent and tried to run off, the listening to Thursday was informed.
When interviewed after being arrested on December 12, 2022, Griffiths, of Dan Y Graig, Machen, Caerphilly, initially denied the whole lot. He informed police he was going to a celebration in room 501 on the lodge however later entered responsible pleas, prosecutor Nuhu Gobir mentioned. For the most recent courtroom reviews signal as much as our crime e-newsletter.
Griffiths, 24, was described as a “heavy consumer” of crack cocaine and cocaine on the time of the offences however is now a reformed character, Emma Harris, mitigating, mentioned.
It took 18 months for him be charged with worrying with supplying crack cocaine and cocaine over a couple of days from December 12, 2022, and in that wait and for the reason that younger father-of-two has turned his life round, the courtroom heard.
Griffiths has stopped taking medicine, has a job, and is eager to be a father to his two youngsters aged six and one, Ms Harris mentioned.
Aged 21 on the time he was arrested Griffiths was “immature”, she mentioned.
“In 2022 Mr Griffiths was in a stage of his life the place his life revolved round medicine,” Ms Harris informed the courtroom. “He used medicine to deal with difficulties. He had used medicine since he was 16.”
She added: “He now has good relationships along with his household. He needs to be there for his youngsters.”
Griffiths, who has expertise of being within the care system and has been to jail earlier than, needed to “transfer away from a troubled life”.
“He’s effectively considered by his employer, free of medicine, and has a supportive household,” the defence barrister informed the courtroom.
Sentencing Griffiths to 21 months imprisonment suspended for 2 years Recorder Andrew Hammond warned Griffiths: “That is your final probability.”
And he mentioned he hoped Griffiths can be a greater father than his personal. “You had been introduced up by a father convicted for supplying medicine. One can solely hope you do not inflict the identical affect in your youngsters.”
On prime of the suspended sentence the decide additionally ordered Griffiths to do 26 hours of an accredited rehabilitation programme, 15 days of a rehabilitation exercise, and 120 days of unpaid work. The iPhone seized within the lodge is to be forfeited and destroyed and Grifffiths should additionally pay £500 prosecution prices and a sufferer surcharge of £187.
Turning to Griffiths the decide informed him he accepted he had turned his life round however warned him: “In case you do not comply, or commit one other offence inside two years, you’ll return to courtroom and you’ll go to jail.”
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