Tattenhall teenager fined for drug offences

Oct 7 2010 by Allison Dickinson, Chester Chronicle

A TEENAGER who served a prison sentence for stabbing a drug dealer in the neck has been fined for drugs offences.

James Wilson, 19, of Chapel Lane, Tattenhall, appeared at Chester Magistrates Court where he admitted possessing cocaine, a Class A drug, cannabis, a Class B drug and failing to take a breath test after being stopped by police while riding a moped in Church Street, Tarvin, on May 8.

He was fined £70 for each of the drugs offences plus £100 for failing to provide a specimen for analysis and banned from driving for three years.

Wilson has already spent 18 months in custody at a youth detention centre after an incident in August 2008.

Then aged 17 and known as ‘Big Jim’, he was given a three-year sentence at Chester Crown Court after admitting unlawful wounding and being found guilty of attempting to rob a Delamere drug dealer during an incident in Chester Road, Tattenhall.

Armed with a kitchen knife, Wilson had tried to rob the dealer of £20 worth of potent ‘skunk’ cannabis, leaving the man with a 3cm cut to his neck and defensive wounds to his hands.