A FORMER drug addict was spared prison despite being found with more than £1,000 worth of cannabis.

Daniel Anderson was stopped and searched by police at Hove Park and was found with the class B drugs.

The 26-year-old said he was not dealing the drugs and said they were for his own personal use.

He was in breach of a suspended sentence for possessing class A drugs with intent to supply. He was found with powder bags in his car.

At Hove Crown Court, Anderson was told he was in the “last chance saloon” as he was given a one-year suspended prison term for the cannabis offence.

His defence barrister William England said Anderson had turned his life around and had been bought a new home in Burgess Hill by his parents.

Judge Paul Tain said Anderson had changed his lifestyle and put him under curfew for three months.

The judge said: “The curfew will be electronically monitored between 8pm and 5am, with no exceptions, save for an emergency.

“So there is no point coming to me to ask about being released for Christmas or New Year’s parties, it ain’t going to happen.”

Rachel Beckett, prosecuting, told the court that Anderson was stopped in Hove Park in April.

She said Anderson, of Meeds Road, Burgess Hill, had 13 previous convictions for 18 offences.

He was under a suspended sentence for possessing cocaine with intent to supply, possessing cannabis and possessing a prohibited weapon in public, namely CS gas.

The sentence was imposed less than two months before he was caught with the cannabis.

Mr England said that Anderson had lost a leg and walked with a prosthetic limb.

Anderson has previously said he was involved in a motorcycle accident and doctors were not able to save his leg despite 17 operations.

He completed a charity walk from the West Pier to Brighton Palace Pier as part of his rehabilitation and to support a schoolgirl in a fundraising effort.

Mr England asked the judge to suspend the prison sentence.

The judge said Anderson was previously guilty of street level dealing but said the defendant had changed his lifestyle.

Judge Tain said: “Barring this hiccup, his lifestyle has changed and it would be unjust to make him go to prison immediately.”

He made Anderson complete two more rehabilitation sessions.

The judge ordered him to pay £500 prosecution costs and said: “If he has any problems paying, I’m sure he can ask his parents to help him again.”