A defence attorney has urged the High Court to impose a $30 000 fine rather than a custodial sentence on a fisherman convicted of trafficking more than 70 kilogrammes of cannabis more than seven years ago.

Defence attorney Kristin Vanderpool has told a High Court that a fine would meet justice in the case of Troy Decoursey Best.

The convicted man of Inch Marlow, Christ Church, previously admitted in the No. 3A Supreme Court before Justice Anthony Blackman that, within Barbados’s territorial waters, he had in his possession 71.6 kilogrammes of cannabis. He also confessed to trafficking and importing the drug.