Court told 35-year-old was addicted to class A drug
A Douglas man's narrowly avoided being sent to jail after trying to smuggle cocaine to the Island.
Thirty-five-year-old Craig Phillip Teare, of Tramman Rise, appeared before magistrates at Douglas Courthouse.
He'd previously admitted producing £290 worth of the drug, and possessing it, on 31 December last year.
Teare was stopped by police as he got off the ferry from Heysham in the early hours of the morning - after he began acting nervously officers arrested him and took him to hospital.
On 4 January he produced two packages of cocaine which he told police were for his own use.
The court heard he was addicted to the class A drug and had gone to the UK to buy it cheaply.
Magistrates were told he committed the offences just a fortnight after appearing in court on unconnected charges.
He was handed a six month custodial sentence was suspended for two years - magistrates ordered him to pay £125 towards prosecution costs.
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