A woman from Monkton has been given a 12 month conditional discharge after admitting cannabis possession.

Twenty-eight-year-old Leoni Elizabeth Ann Jenkins, pleaded guilty to possessing 0.3 grams of cannabis when she appeared at Haverfordwest Magistrates Court on Tuesday.

Prosecutor Sian Vaughan told magistrates that police officers attended Ms Jenkins’s address on an unrelated matter and when they searched the property they could smell cannabis emanating from upstairs.

Defence solicitor Katy Hanson told the court that police were attending for a separate matter involving another person who was at Ms Jenkins’s property.

She explained that Ms Jenkins was in attendance in court with a support worker from the MIND organisation as she had being undergoing eight weeks intensive support as she suffers with brain condition Arnold-Chiari malformation, which causes depression and panic attacks.

“She has experienced a number of difficulties, but seems to me to be a young lady who us getting the support she needs,” said Ms Hanson.

Magistrates gave Ms Jenkins a 12 month conditional discharge and ordered her to pay prosecution costs of £85 and a £20 victim surcharge.