A 20-year-old man has admitted possessing 2.9 grams of cannabis.

Stephen George Shimmin was arrested on August 29, at Nelson Street in Douglas, initially for breaching his bail conditions.

A search found the class B drug, valued by police at £58, in his pocket.

Sentencing has been adjourned until November 13, when Shimmin, whose address was given as Tromode House, is due to be sentenced at the Court of General Gaol Delivery for provoking behaviour, a telecommunications offence, common assault, criminal damage, and threatening behaviour.

The offences put him in breach of a suspended sentence, imposed last December, after Shimmin received more than £30,000 worth of cannabis in the post, and was told by the Deemster he was ‘getting a second chance’.

Bail continues.