Walney man fined £80 for cannabis possession after a previous caution
Joel Niven, 20, of Walney near Barrow-in-Furness, was convicted of cannabis possession after officers recovered a sealed bag from him at Barrow Park. Magistrates fined him £80, ordered £117 in costs and surcharge, and sought forfeiture of the drugs. He had a previous caution for cannabis possession from December 2025.
🇬🇧 Barrow Park, Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria · United Kingdom
Fine
GBP 80
Joel Niven, of Gatacre Street on Walney, came to the attention of officers on 7
May after police received a report of youths smoking cannabis while fishing at
Barrow Park.[1]Officers recovered a sealed bag of cannabis from the
20-year-old defendant.[1]
In interview Niven conceded the drugs were for his own personal consumption
only.[1]The defendant already had a caution for possessing cannabis from
December 2025.[1]
Magistrates fined him £80 and ordered him to pay £85 in court costs and a £32
victim surcharge.[1]Forfeiture and destruction of the seized drugs was
sought.[1]
The article does not name the specific magistrates' court that imposed the sentence.
The article does not state a separate hearing date; 13 November 2026 is its publication date and is used as the incident date.
No weight or quantity of cannabis is given; only that a sealed bag was recovered.
The article says the defendant already had a caution for possessing cannabis from December 2025, but the exact charge and court outcome for that earlier incident are not stated.
Rorie Jeffs, 25, of Aylesbury, was found guilty of possession of cannabis at High Wycombe Magistrates' Court and ordered to pay £85 plus a further £26 surcharge. He was one of the most recent cases concluded at the court as reported in the 10 November 2026 round-up.
Three men were each jailed for four years over a large-scale cannabis factory in Greenock's former Tobacco Warehouse, raided in June 2025 with more than 1,000 plants. Ariel Ruko has appealed his sentence, with a hearing due at the High Court in Edinburgh on 17 November 2026.
Baban Shadi, 26, of London, admitted possessing 0.6g of cannabis in Weston-super-Mare on 16 April 2026, in the same hearing as driving without insurance or a licence. A magistrates' court fined him £120 with £85 in costs and gave him eight penalty points, and the cannabis was ordered forfeited and destroyed.
Nashaun Joseph, 21, of Huddersfield, was found with a small bag of cannabis when he was arrested on 14 October and was in breach of a 12-month prison sentence suspended for a year. Kirklees magistrates did not activate the sentence, adding a six-month drug rehabilitation requirement and ordering him to pay £197 in fine and costs.
