A serial offender who threw cannabis off a balcony as police tried to enter a property has been sentenced to three months behind bars.

Neville Woods, 56, admitted having the drug when he appeared in Magistrates’ Court yesterday.

The court heard that police arrested Woods, from Pembroke, after he tried to keep them out of a home in Hamilton and threw a bag off the property’s balcony last November.

The bag contained almost 66 grams of cannabis and $163.43 in cash.

Woods, whose convictions date back to 1982, was previously sentenced to 4½ years behind bars in 2013, 18 months in prison in 2022 and a three-year jail term this year.

He told magistrate Maria Sofianos yesterday that cannabis “kept [him] out of jail and off crack cocaine for years”.

Ms Sofianos ordered that Woods’s three-month sentence for the offence begin after the one he is serving at present for burglary.

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