Student drug dealers spared jail as judge says he was impressed by the grammar in their text messages

Authored by telegraph.co.uk and submitted by Danyo-

Two young drug dealers were praised by a judge for the high standard of grammar in their text messages to customers.

Teenager Luke Rance bought cannabis in bulk and sold it to 21-year-old Brandon Kerrison for him to deal to people in Gower, South Wales, a court heard.

Judge David Hale, who sentenced the pair on Wednesday, noted that the "grammar and punctuation" used in their drug-dealing text messages was of a much better standard than usually seen.

Swansea Crown Court heard that officers were on foot patrol in the evening on December 17 last year in Pennard when they passed the village library.

Tom Scapens, prosecuting, said the officers entered the car park and could smell cannabis. Nearby they saw Rance and Kerrison.

Kerrison, who was smoking a cannabis cigarette, fled but returned a short time later while Rance stayed in the car park with the officers.

bigfrojo1 on January 4th, 2019 at 00:20 UTC »

To be fair no jail for weed dealing in UK is quite common, I've seen multiple local papers of stories of people being let off with warnings for large amounts of cannabis and one with an ounce of cocaine, where they are told to prove they are looking for jobs or improving themselves

Crowbarmagic on January 4th, 2019 at 00:10 UTC »

Coincidentally, I literally just saw this old Simpsons episode for the first time in which Homer was supposed to listen to some cassette tape to lose his appetite while he slept, but the tape was for broadening your vocabulary instead. The rest of the episode he makes kinda stupid remarks like normal, but because he uses all these fancy words instead it sounds so smart. It's hilarious.

SilasX on January 3rd, 2019 at 23:02 UTC »

"Most dope slingers say 'me and him', you said 'he and I' -- very impressive!"