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'Cannabis was for pets' court told

BBC News

A man convicted of cultivating cannabis plants claimed in court that he was growing the drug to feed his pet lizards.

Reptile keeper Stuart Udraufski, 30, told police his four Chinese water dragons liked to eat the leaves he fed them, but claimed that he did not know the plants were cannabis.

Father-of-six Udraufski, of Bridgend, south Wales, was found guilty of cultivating cannabis and conditionally discharged for two years at the town's magistrates court.

Police raided his flat and found the plants growing on his balcony.

Udraufski, defending himself in court, told magistrates: "The lizards were nibbling on them and it was doing them good.

"I have got several plants in the house and I always prune them to look after them.

"After eating the plants the lizards were more active and their behaviour changed.

"A mate of mine said he knew a place that sold plants so he made inquires and got me some seeds.

"He said they were edible plants for all kinds of reptiles. I did not know they were cannabis plants."

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