A man from Pembroke has been given a 12-month community order after pleading guilty to supplying the drug Mephedrone.

Thirty-four-year-old Robert James Stevenson Hamilton, of Strongbow Walk, admitted a charge of supplying a quantity of the drug known as M-CAT, on October 19, of last year, when he appeared at Haverfordwest Magistrates Court on Tuesday.

Prosecutor, Mr. Dennis Davies told the court that police were contacted by the ambulance service after they had attended a property where Mr. Hamilton had injected himself with the drug.

The defendant was taken to hospital to be treated and a woman at the address was arrested.

Police recovered a syringe and a small bag of white powder from the property.

"After being arrested, in interview Mr. Hamilton originally denied supplying the drugs, but in a second police interview, he admitted that he didn't quite tell the truth," Mr. Davies told the court.

He said that he had gone down to Pembroke Dock to share what drugs he had. He admitted the offence, whereas in the first interview he put the blame onto the woman.

His solicitor, Mr. Gareth Phillips, told the court that his client acknowledged that he had got a serious drugs problem.

Magistrates asked for a report to be given by the probation service, and reporting back after interviewing Mr. Hamilton, probation officer Mr. Jenkins said that the defendant had injected himself in the groin on the night in question.

"Meow or M-KAT is a particularly nasty drug that causes physical and mental damage which Mr. Hamilton said he'd previously given up," Mr. Jenkins told magistrates.

"He had a bad reaction to it this time and began to fit and an an ambulance was called. It's quite possible that the Mephedrone could have been cut with another drug," continued Mr. Jenkins, before recommending that Mr. Hamilton be put on a drugs building skills recovery programme, where he would meet with the probation service twice weekly over a period of 12 months.

Magistrates elected to go along with the recommendations, and issued the defendant with a 12-month community order, with supervision, to meet twice weekly with the probation service as part of the building skills for recovery programme.

Mr. Hamilton was fined £75 and ordered to pay costs of £85 and a £60 victim surcharge.