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Marciniuk, of Kingston Street, Goole, admitted a single count of producing cannabis.

Prosecutor Stephen Welch said Detective Constable Coggin, of Humberside Police, valued the drugs at just over £33,000, based on the haul being "broken up into the lowest size of commodity".

Ian Haywood, mitigating, urged Recorder Nicholas Lumley QC to consider handing his client a community sentence. He said Marciniuk was willing to carry out work in the community in order to repay his debt to society.

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Recorder Lumley QC told Marciniuk that had he been found guilty by a jury, he would have had a prison sentence at least 18 months.

He said: "It is to your very great credit that you have not tried to drag things out. You accept that there was an element of commercialality to your endeavours.

"Having regard to your lack of previous convictions and the prosecution accepting that this was your first attempt at this sort of behaviour, I am just able to suspend what would have been a certain prison sentence."

Marciniuk was handed a 12-month prison sentence, suspended for two years, and ordered to complete 180 hours of unpaid work.