A drug dealer has been rewarded for his rehabilitation efforts with a two-month discount from his sentence on appeal. Timothy Graham Moffatt, 46, was previously convicted of selling cannabis, possessing methamphetamine, unlawfully possessing a firearm (a cut-down bolt-action .22 rifle) and unlawfully possessing ammunition (40 .22 rounds). He was sentenced to 22 months’ jail in February, which he appealed in the High Court at Dunedin this week. “I just made a very bad choice when confronted with the drug on the day”. Crown prosecutor Richard Smith said that Moffatt had long-standing entrenched drug issues and although he had a difficult background, believed the original sentence was appropriate.
