A heroin addict has had his prison sentence doubled after the Attorney General claimed his original jail term was too lenient.

Jeffrey Cameron Watterson was arrested at the Sea Terminal last July as he got off the ferry from Liverpool.

After being held in Noble’s hospital, a CT scan showed he was carrying more than forty grams of the drug internally.

But he said the heroin, worth over ?4,000, was for his own personal use and was given a total of two years for producing and possessing a class A drug.

Jason Robert reports:

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The attorney general argued that Deemster Doyle had been mistaken to give a shorter prison sentence because Watterson had no plans to sell the drugs.
He argued the offence of bringing drugs into the Island was just as serious for users as it would be for dealers.

Deemster Kerruish and Appeal Judge Tattershall agreed, and pointed out Watterson had been uncooperative with police by denying he’d been carrying drugs until scans showed otherwise.

For producing class A drugs, they increased his sentence to four years.