A BOLTON man jailed for three years for growing 274 cannabis plants has won a one-year cut in his sentence after top judges said he should be sentenced on the basis that most of it was for his own use.

For two years until April, 2007, Stephen Arthur White, aged 39, of Chorley New Road, turned a house in Newbury Road, Bolton, into a sophisticated cannabis factory.

At Bolton Crown Court in August this year, he was sentenced to three years after admitting producing cannabis and supplying the drug on another occasion.

However, at the Court of Appeal, three judges ruled the term was “manifestly excessive”, as White should have been sentenced on admissions he made to police about his intended use for the drugs.