Weston-super-Mare driver fined £120 for 0.6g cannabis possession
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.
🇬🇧 Alfred Street, Weston-super-Mare, North Somerset · United Kingdom
Baban Shadi, 26, of London, admitted driving along Alfred Street,
Weston-super-Mare without insurance or a licence and to possessing 0.6g of
cannabis on 16 April 2026.[1]The possession and the two motoring offences
were admitted together in the same hearing.[1]The cannabis was possessed in
Weston-super-Mare, in North Somerset.[1]
Shadi received eight penalty points and was ordered to pay £85 in costs and a
fine of £120.[1]The court also ordered the forfeiture and destruction of the
0.6g of cannabis seized from him.[1]
The case was listed among the latest Weston and wider North Somerset offenders
sentenced in Magistrates’ Court that week.[1]
The same round-up records two further sentences that week, neither of which
involves cannabis.[1]John Jackson of Hutton was sentenced for drunk and
disorderly behaviour and assaults in Somerton.[1]Marc Radford of Speedwell,
Bristol, was sentenced for speeding on the A4061.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
The round-up gives no date for the sentencing hearing; 12 November 2026 is the article's publication date and is used as the incident date.
The offence is dated only as April 16 'of this year', with the year 2026 taken from the article's publication date.
The article does not say whether the 0.6g was herbal cannabis or another cannabis product.
The £120 fine, the £85 in costs and the eight penalty points are not broken down between the cannabis possession and the driving without insurance or a licence.
Only one accessible account of this hearing was found after searching in English.
The other sentences listed in the same round-up concern separate offences in Somerton and on the A4061 and are not part of this case.
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.
Roy Hickman, 42, was arrested at Princes Dock on 6 July 2026 after police found cannabis in the car he was in, and a search of his home found four phones in breach of a serious crime prevention order. Liverpool Crown Court gave him a conditional discharge on 11 November after the phones could not be downloaded and ordered the cannabis and three phones forfeited.
Callum Roper, 22, of Holton Road, Barry, was jailed for 30 months at Cardiff Crown Court after admitting offences involving the supply of cannabis and magic mushrooms. He pleaded guilty to being concerned in the supply of both drugs between 3 December 2025 and 14 September 2026 and had been remanded in custody awaiting sentence.
Bolton Crown Court sentenced seven members of three linked drug gangs that trafficked cocaine and cannabis between Manchester, Stoke-on-Trent and North Wales. Five men received prison sentences of up to eleven and a half years, while two couriers received community orders and two leaders await later sentencing.
