Acting Chief Magistrate Cecil Sullivan on Monday sentenced a man to prison after he said he bought ganja to help ease his asthma “struggle” while his reputed wife was remanded after she denied the charge.

According to the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court report Lloyd Wilson, 31, admitted to having 68.5 grammes of cannabis and was fined $10,000 and sentenced to three years imprisonment.

Wilson and his reputed wife Beverly Fields, of Kuru Kururu, Linden/Soesdyke Highway, last Friday, at the said location, were allegedly found with the narcotics after police, acting on information, conducted a search at their home. Reports are that when police opened a plastic bag, found in the kitchen, in the presence of the two defendants, it contained the drugs. They were told of the offence and charged.

Wilson, in admitting to the offence, told the court that he suffers from asthma and “somebody advise me to buy this thing so I buy it to see if it does wuk.” Following the purchase he said, he returned home and concealed the drugs without the knowledge of his wife. He said shortly after, the police arrived at his home, conducted a search and found the drugs. “I ain’t even get to try the thing or nothing,” Wilson said.

Fields, in asking the court to grant her bail said she has children and “they ain’t got nowhere to go.”

The magistrate handed down the judgement after listening to them. Fields was ordered to appear at the Providence Magistrate’s Court on March 6.