Well if the punishment is 16 months jail time for 20kg of cannabis, of which less than half will be served, maybe the reward is worth the risk, depending on your personal circumstances at the time. And this guys circumstances don’t appear to have been too bright given the outstanding other charge. So a couple of weeks or so holiday sounded good, given that he probably knew he was going to be jailed anyway. Quite why the police talk up the severity of the offence, when the punishment is basically a slap on the wrist, I don’t know. “Like other cannabis smugglers, Barker was motivated by money. He knew he was doing something illegal and fraught with danger but did it anyway," Abbott said.” Fraught with danger? Jail him for 6 years instead of 16 months and that statement might be true.
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