GRANDMOTHER
FACES JAIL
Source:
The Telegraph, UK
Pub date:
Tuesday September 20, 2005
Subj: Grandmother faces jail
Author:
Duncan Gardham
Web:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/09/20/ntab20.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/09/20/ixhome.html
Ref: Pat
Tabram
http://www.ccguide.org/pattabram.php
A
drug-dealing grandmother is facing jail after police raided her home and found
she was growing cannabis.
Patricia
Tabram, 66, of Humshaugh, near Hexham in Northumberland, was given a six month
suspended jail sentence for possessing cannabis with intent to supply earlier
this year.
She was
warned that a repeat offence would mean that she could be jailed and police
said yesterday they had raided her home over the weekend and arrested her on
suspicion of cultivating cannabis.
Mrs
Tabram says she takes the drug to alleviate the symptoms of tinnitus, whiplash
and depression.
In January she admitted possessing
8.5oz of skunk cannabis - the most powerful variety - with a street value of
£854 and told police she had clubbed together with a number of other pensioners
to buy the supply to help them to relieve pain.