A Harry Potter actor has been spared jail and ordered to do 120 hours of community service after admitting growing cannabis.
Jamie Waylett, who plays Hogwarts bully Vincent Crabbe in the films, pleaded guilty last week after being charged along with his long-term friend John Innis in April.
Leaving London's City of Westminster Magistrates Court, the actor said: "I extend my sincere apologies to the producers, cast and crew and all at Warners and most especially to all Harry Potter fans."
His co-defendent, 20-year-old Innis, was sentenced to six weeks behind bars and fined £500.
District judge Timothy Workman told Waylett: "I accept that the cultivation of this cannabis was on a small scale, and this was not in any way a commercial venture on your part.
"Nevertheless you used a sophisticated growing system to do so.
"I give you credit for pleading guilty at the earliest opportunity, your co-operation with police and the fact that you are, until now, a man of good character."
The pair were detained in April under the Terrorism Act after Waylett took a photo of a police patrol as they drove past.
Innis' black Audi was searched and police discovered eight bags of cannabis and a knife.
When police examined the mobile phone used to take the picture, they found images of cannabis plants which Waylett admitted were his.
Officers then searched the home of his mother in Kilburn, northwest London, and found 10 cannabis plants growing in a tent in his bedroom.
They discovered a further three bags of the same drug at Innis' home in Barnet, north London.
Innis admitted possessing a knife and having 11 bags of cannabis.
Waylett plays the dim-witted sidekick of villan Draco Malfoy in all of the hugely successful Harry Potter films.
