More than $100,000 worth of fines did not seem to be enough to deter a young woman from touching ganja ever again. Instead, the youth visited the Narcotics police Division with the contraband and was arrested for the drug again.

But while the British citizen was only fined for the offence the first time, the second time she was not so lucky. In addition to being fined, a removal order was made for her to be sent back to England.

Shannon Walcott, a 21-year-old student of Croydon, London, England, pleaded guilty to possession of ganja when the matter was mentioned in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court on Wednesday.

Resident Magistrate Judith Pusey reprimanded Walcott strongly for her actions, stating that she obviously had no respect for Jamaican laws which was why she committed the offence. "We are more than a beach , we have laws, you must have respect," RM Pusey said.

But Walcott begged the judge not to send her to prison as she had not intended to get caught with the drug. "I asked someone to buy a small bag so I could go home and celebrate (that the first case had ended and that she got back her passport). I forgot that it was there ( in her pocket)," she told the court.

She also insisted that she did not mean "to disrespect the law."

Allegations read against the accused are that on Monday, February 5 at 3 p.m., an officer was on duty at Narcotics Division and was standing at the entrance when he saw Walcott arrive at the division. She made enquires about her passport which she came to collect and produced a letter that was given to her by the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court.

The letter showed that she was convicted for possession of, dealing in and taking steps to export ganja on January 24 and was ordered to pay a total of $120,700 in fines or serve 12 months in prison.

The officer observed a transparent plastic with what appears to be ganja protruding from her left pants pocket. He asked her what it was, but she pushed it down in her pocket. A woman inspector who was passing by assisted in searching Walcott and took the transparent plastic bag with ganja weighing an ounce from her pocket. Walcott was arrested and charged for possession of ganja.

She was fined $100 or 10 days and a removal order was made for immediate return to England.