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A pair of student drug dealers have been spared jail after a judge was impressed by the ‘spelling and grammar’ of the texts they sent advertising their product.
Luke,19, and Brandon, 21, were arrested outside a library when they were found in possession of the Class B drug.
A court heard police examined their mobile phones to find text messages relating to their drug deals composed using perfect spelling and punctuation.
Judge David said the ‘grammar and punctuation’ in the messages was of a much higher standard than normally seen from dealers and indicated a higher level of education.
Judge said he did not want to ‘fetter the prospects’ of either man by sending them to jail.
Instead Brandon and Rance were handed community orders with 100 hours of unpaid work.
Had Judge Hale wanted to impose a harsher punishment, sentencing guidelines indicate the pair could have been imprisoned for up to 26 weeks.
The two admitted possession of cannabis with intent to supply and being concerned in the supply of cannabis.
When police stopped the pair and read the text messages they found them to be written with correct punctuation and spelling, in contrast to the typical messages sent by dealers in the area using poor spelling, punctuation and grammar.
Indeed education is the key to life.