Chester Crown Court
A DRUG dealer from Ellesmere Port who splashed out £50k on Rolex watches from his ill-gotten gains has been spared an immediate prison sentence.
Chester Crown Court heard on Friday, April 30 that Robert Dennis Parsonage, 31, of Rostherne Avenue, Great Sutton, had benefitted from his cannabis dealing operation to the tune of more than £60k overall.
But the court also heard that, since Parsonage's offending stopped in July 2018, he had turned his life around and had shown a "determination" to address his offending.
Honorary Recorder of Chester Judge Steven Everett therefore suspended the two-year prison term, acknowledging what he called an "unacceptable" near-three-year gap between Parsonage stopping his criminal activity and being sentenced.