A 23-year-old man has been handed a second spent conviction, after pleading guilty to possessing LSD, cannabis and MDMA.
Prosecuting officer Sean Discombe said Hugh Robert Read Forward was stopped by police driving a Mercedes in Lake Clifton on January 17, 2018.
Mr Discombe said police found 0.23 grams of MDMA, 0.28 grams of LSD, 0.87 grams of cannabis, a small mirror, a razor blade and two straws in the vehicle.
Prior to being charged with these offences, Forward had been granted a spent conviction for a prior offence in 2014.
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Forward had just completed a journalism degree and had plans to work in Africa, defence lawyer Jeremy Scudds told the court, but he had been associating with “the wrong crowd”.
He said the drugs were for Forward’s personal use and he recently saw a psychologist to make sense of his “bad judgment”.
Mr Scudds said his client’s father, Steven Forward, was a lawyer who ran his own business in Margaret River and was prepared to give a personal reference.
He said Forward had a personal reference from criminal defence lawyer and former Fremantle mayor Richard Utting.
Magistrate Anne Longden told the court that Forward had pleaded guilty at the earliest stage and it was unlikely the offences would occur again.
He was granted a spent conviction, fined $800 and $190.85 costs.