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Subscriber only A Northern Rivers father who tried to take the fall for cultivating his daughter s cannabis plants has been convicted. Gregory Neil Stewart, 57, pleaded guilty to possessing 23 cannabis plants in the Casino Local Court on Thursday. The NSW Police prosecutor withdrew one count of cultivating a prohibited drug, after it was accepted the plants were grown by Stewart s daughter, Cody Louise Fuller. Fuller, who also appeared before Casino Local Court on Thursday, pleaded guilty to cultivating and possessing the 23 cannabis plants, which were ranging in heights of 80-90cm. The court heard Fuller had contacted police after her father had been charged explaining the plants were hers and she had been the one responsible for growing them on her father s property.