13/02/2008 00:00:00
UK: Gran is warned over drugs
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A GRANDMOTHER was warned by a judge that she was risking jail by
supplying drugs to her daughter.
Julie Coleman, 39, was a heavy user of cannabis to ease the pain of a
succession of family tragedies, Teesside Crown Court was told.
When police raided her Stockton home with a drugs search warrant she
also admitted she supplied cannabis to her daughter Lindsey, who has an
eight-week-old girl.
Peter Wishlade, defending, said: “This is simply an occasion of her
daughter wishing on occasions to smoke cannabis and she is supplying her
from the same block. She did not pay for it. It’s if you like almost a
social event of saying ‘Have a glass of wine.’”
Prosecutor Yvonne Taylor said that police found cannabis worth £1,918 in
a bedroom and kitchen in Westcott Street, Stockton, on January 28, and
Coleman said that it was for her own use but she would share it with her
occasional partner David Stones, 29, and her daughter.
Police raided the house again on February 6 and Stones said the latest
find of cannabis worth £157 was his, and he occasionally supplied it to
friends if he was asked.
Stephen Constantine, defending Stones, said that he had been a heroin
addict since he was 16.
He turned to cannabis after quitting heroin and had been prescribed
methadone.
The pair admitted separate charges of possession of cannabis with intent
to supply.
Recorder Martin Bethel QC gave Coleman a six-month jail sentence
suspended for 18 months with supervision, and Stones of Burgess Street,
Stockton, was given a 12-month community rehabilitation order with
supervision and a drug rehabilitation order for six months.
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