'Black mamba' Shrewsbury cannabis dealer with history of 35 offences spared jail
A 52-year-old Shrewsbury man has avoided jail after being caught selling the illegal street drug 'black mamba'.
Shrewsbury Crown Court heard on Friday that police found more 231 grams of the synthetic cannabinoid in Phillip Jennings one bedroom flat in Ditherington Road.
Mr John Oates prosecuting said officers served a warrant at the address back in July 2022.
Inside, Mr Oates said, officers not only found two bags containing the Class B drug - often referred to on the streets as zombie drug - but also scales and other indications of drug dealing, including messages on a mobile phone.
The court was told that Jennings, who had a history of 35 offences including drug dealing dating back to the 1990s, admitted peddling the synthetic cannabis at an earlier hearing on the grounds that he had only been selling it to "three friends" to pay for his own habit.
