£550 fine for smoking joint

Smoking a joint under a disused bridge has cost a man £550. Transport operator Jakub Kosidlo was spotted using cannabis in Spalding on December 19 of last year. “On the day in question police found the defendant under a disused bridge on Mitchell (Drive) smoking a joint - it’s as simple as that,” prosecutor Turan Sunat told Boston magistrates on Wednesday (April 9).

The 22-year-old, of Dias Close, Spalding, pleaded guilty to being in possession of the Class B drug. “Everything that was said is correct,” he said, defending himself. Kosidlo was fined £338 and ordered to pay a £135 victim surcharge and £85 costs, to be paid within 28 days.



Magistrates ordered the forfeiture and destruction of the drug..