A MAN accused of damaging almost £500 of pot plants has been found not guilty.

Aled Burgess, 31, of St Dogmaels, had been charged with criminal damage.

It was alleged that he had damaged a woman’s pot plants, worth £490, in St Dogmaels on August 18.

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Burgess pleaded not guilty to criminal damage on November 29.

At Aberystwyth Magistrates’ Court on February 1, he was found not guilty.