A man who imported cannabis resin into Bermuda has been sentenced to four months behind bars.

Keneth Butterfield, 46, admitted swallowing more than 110 grams of the controlled drug to bring it into the island when he appeared in Magistrates’ Court in February.

The drugs, which he bought in Britain and excreted at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital, would fetch more than $11,000 on Bermuda’s streets if sold by the ounce and more than $22,000 by the gram.

During a hearing last month, Butterfield, from St George’s, repeatedly denied importing the substance so he could sell it and maintained that it was all for his own use. Magistrate Craig Attridge accepted this position.

Butterfield was sentenced to seven years behind bars in 2010, for his involvement in a $850,000 cannabis importation scheme.

Mr Attridge highlighted this previous conviction, as well as Butterfield’s early guilty plea, when he reappeared in court for sentencing yesterday.

Mr Attridge found no reason to suspend any of Butterfield’s four-month sentence.

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