Police raided a Liskeard heroin addict's house in the mistaken belief that he was a drugs dealer, magistrates in the town were told. In fact, the court heard, Christian James Pierre Barr's £100-a-day habit – which he is taking steps to overcome – was funded by a millionaire relative. Barr, 23, of Glynn Road, admitted possessing 67.5gms of diamorphine and was made the subject of a Community Order to include a curfew between the hours of 7pm and 7am daily until March 21 next year. He was also ordered to pay £43 towards prosecution costs and the court decided to take no action over a breach of an earlier conditional discharge. A Drug Rehabilitation Requirement is to continue and magistrates adjourned a review of the requirement until January 22. Maurice Champion, prosecuting, said police went to Barr's address on the Tuesday before Christmas and searched Barr and another person. They found a bag containing a brown powder which he admitted was heroin for his own use. Stephen Cox, defending, said the police wrongly believed that Barr was a drug dealer because of the quantities found in his possession in the past, but this was not the case and no evidence had ever been found to support the police's belief. However he did have an 'extremely high' consumption rate. He was making serious efforts to come off the drug, the court heard.



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