Walsall gambling addict avoids jail after allowing family home to be used as a cannabis crop house to pay off debts
A Walsall gambling addict who let his family home be used by gangsters to grow cannabis has avoided jail.
After losing his savings and wages, Waldemar Suchodolski began borrowing money to splurge on online gambling websites.
As the 42-year-old's debts exceeded £1,000 the drug dealers who he owed money to made him an offer he claimed he could not refuse. If he allowed his flat on Burgh Way, Beechdale, to become a mini cannabis farm, his debts would be reduced.
However, neighbours soon smelt the pungent pong of skunk weed and tipped off police that they were living next to a crop house.
When West Midlands Police officers raided Suchodolski's home in December last year, they found 20 cannabis plants in the loft. The father-of-two, with another child on the way, was charged with production of cannabis, a class B drug, with intent to supply.
