article_snippet: A man was charged and prosecuted at a cost of £5,000 to the taxpayer - over the possession of cannabis worth less than £2.
article_snippet: Martin Kewley was ordered to appear in court after police found a minuscule amount of the drug in a drawer by Martin Kewley bedside.
article_snippet: Rather than caution the builder, of Onchan, Isle of Man, over the cannabis - worth £1.59 - officers and prosecutors decided to take the case to Douglas Magistrates' Court.
article_snippet: A man was charged and prosecuted at a cost of £5,000 to the taxpayer - over the possession of cannabis resin worth less than £2 (file picture) caution builder was given six months' probation after pleading guilty to possession.
article_snippet: Kewley was ordered to go before a court after police found a minuscule amount of cannabis in Kewley bedside drawer .
highlights_snippet: Martin Kewley, of Isle of Man, was sent to court for possession of the drug .
  
highlights_snippet: Police found minuscule amount of cannabis worth £1.59 in bedside drawer .
  