NEVILLE Mahasa (no address given) was fined $6,000 and imprisoned for one year on Friday for having an improvised pen pipe for smoking cocaine.

Before Acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry, he pleaded guilty to the offence, particulars of which said, on September 3, he was in possession of the instrument used to smoke the narcotic.
Mahasa told the court that he suffers pains about his body and the drug would give him relief.