Car rammed on M5 over unpaid cannabis debt
A drug dealer repeatedly rammed a woman's car on the motorway while his accomplice aimed a rifle at her after she failed to pay a drug debt.
Jordan Small followed the woman on the M5 after she left Weston-super-Mare without paying £200 for her cannabis.
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While he did so, his accomplice Craig Hailstone pointed an air rifle at the vehicle.
The shaken woman finally pulled over and paid up but her £2,000 vehicle had been written off.
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At Bristol Crown Court Small, 21, of Madam Lane, Worle, pleaded guilty to possession of cannabis with intent to supply and dangerous driving.
Hailstone, 20, of Tavistock Road, Weston-super-Mare, pleaded guilty to possession of an imitation firearm.
Judge Julian Lambert jailed Small for 28 months and banned him from driving for three years.
Hailstone was given a nine-month sentence in a young offender's institution suspended for two years.
He was also given 240 hours unpaid work, a six-month tagged curfew and had to agree to not take any drugs or contact Small for two years.
Kirsty Real, prosecuting, said a woman had driven to Weston to pay off a £200 cannabis debt and had met Small in a supermarket car park.
"She then left and had not given him the money," Miss Real said.
Both defendants then pursued her on the M5.
"The van was used to ram her vehicle from behind and on the side on several occasions," Miss Real said.
"Mr Hailstone then produced a rifle that he aimed at the car.
"She pulled over onto the hard shoulder near junction 20 at Clevedon and the van crossed the path of a motorcycle in order to ram her car and caused it to spin."
Comments
by Raverbaby-1
Tuesday, November 27 2012, 12:40PM
“@arealbristol
I'm neither sorry – just an advocate for common sense.
@pillowfight
If your argument depends so much on mocking small grammatical mistakes in someone else's posts them I would suggest you don't really have a relevant point to make in the first place.
p.s – you don't use capital letters after a comma – check your own posts you fool. Or maybe you could comment on how PJB_1972 has dropped a few apostrophes. Funny how both of you made grammatical errors but can't blame it on cannabis…my guess is it is down to plain stupidity.
p.p.s - frothing at the mouth??? How ignorant are you about this drug. I enjoy cannabis, I haven't got rabies!!!”
by pillowfight
Tuesday, November 27 2012, 12:13PM
“@ Raverbaby-1
That's not thats.
Stop frothing at the mouth and concentrate.”
by arealbristol
Tuesday, November 27 2012, 12:05PM
“Raverbaby-1 = troll or CLEAR campaign warrior.
PoetRoger will no doubt make an appearance”
by PJB_1972
Tuesday, November 27 2012, 11:55AM
“I'm not sure what sort of brain dead moron thinks they can get away with waving a gun around and ramming a car on the M5! I guess thats why then end up as drug dealers....too dumb for a proper job.”
by vrwrtuy
Tuesday, November 27 2012, 11:02AM
“Raverbaby.
Look at the many Somalians who are on khat. Not much use when they have had that stuff. Look at all the car accidents in the where it's shown that people are under the influence of drink or drugs.
Making drugs legal will still mean people need money to buy them. It might bring the prices down a bit that's all.
Drugs=Crime seems right to me. Doubtless PoetPeter will awake after his morning spliff and get his mates to argue the case against shortly”
by Bert_Hindle
Tuesday, November 27 2012, 10:43AM
“Surely in the sentencing, the offender was made to pay for the damage to the car as well?
Basic rule: you deliberately cause any damage, you pay for it.”
by Raverbaby-1
Tuesday, November 27 2012, 9:10AM
“@pillowfight
thats your response????? says it all really....just another shallow empty comment with little or no relevance.
why dont you try dealing with the serious point i made rather than trying to be a smart mouth??”
by pillowfight
Tuesday, November 27 2012, 12:39AM
“Hey Raverbaby-1, Whilst you were frothing at the mouth you spelt incredibly and definitely wrong.
The drugs do not work, my friend.”
by Raverbaby-1
Monday, November 26 2012, 1:46PM
“@pillowfight
wow, what an incredibaly well thought out and articulated point!! you really are winning the war on drugs all by yourself with such brilliance!!
personally i blame the prohibition. if it were legalised and regulated people wouldnt go to unscrupulous dangerous dealers and rack up large debts which in turn would mean that this particular example of crime wouldnt of happened. still, you know best. lets continue to leave the sole control of a very popular narcotic in the hands of people who dont mind supplying to children or indeed ramming other cars on the motorway whilst aiming a gun at them.
that is definaetly much safer right??”
by Stephen_L
Sunday, November 25 2012, 3:01PM
“The 20mph speed limit should clearly be extended to all motorways in the Bristol area.”