Pubdate: Sat, 24 Jun 2006 Source: Dominion Post, The (New Zealand) Copyright: 2006 The Dominion Post Contact: http://www.dompost.co.nz Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/2550 Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/pot.htm (Cannabis) CANNABIS DEALER'S APPEAL DISMISSED A life-saving Wairarapa hero-turned-cannabis dealer has failed in a bid for home detention. Stephen Trevor Wilmshurst, who was decorated for bravery for being one of two men who clung to the hands of a suicidal patient in 2001 as he dangled over the side of a rail bridge 18 metres above the ground, is serving a jail term of one year and nine months after pleading guilty to charges of possessing cannabis for supply, supplying cannabis and offering to supply cannabis. He did not appeal against the length of the term, but appealed against the High Court judge's refusal to let him ask to serve at least part of the sentence on home detention. His appeal was dismissed. - --- MAP posted-by: Derek