An unemployed teenager arrested for drug dealing was found carrying a handwritten self-help note. Thomas Franks, who was in desperate need of money, had made himself a list that read: Sell push bike, go on the rob; Sell weed, get a job.
Franks, of Tennyson Close, Pound Hill, pleaded guilty at Crawley Magistrates' Court on Friday to possessing herbal cannabis with intent to supply. Prosecuting, Richard Lynn said police investigating an unrelated matter at a hostel for the homeless in Southgate found Franks there carrying a bag of cannabis.
They carried out a search and discovered further amounts of the drug totaling 21 grams, during the May 7 visit. The 19-year-old denied all the cannabis belonged to him but admitted he was selling it to friends. Mr Lynn described it as a "small-scale retail operation".
The defendant told officers who found his self-help list that he was in desperate need of money to pay for expensive repairs to his computer games console. Magistrates bailed Franks while probation and medical reports are prepared. He will be sentenced on June 28.
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