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UK: Cannabis trial coming to an end
News and Star, Carlisle
Thursday 14 Dec 2006 A JURY today heard closing speeches from barristers in the crown court trial of an Alston couple who are jointly accused with a Cambridgeshire man of conspiring to supply cannabis. Mark and Lezley Gibson, of Front Street, both 42, and Marcus Davies, 36, have all pleaded not guilty to the charges. The prosecution had earlier told the court that the couple ran a cottage industry producing bars of chocolate laced with cannabis which they supplied to people with multiple sclerosis. Three MS sufferers who used the chocolate spoke of how they were asked to provide a doctors' note confirming they had the condition, and of how the chocolate had helped relieve symptoms. Defence barrister Andrew Ford, for Lezley Gibson, urged the jury to do the right thing, saying there was a marvelous opportunity to acquit his client. "Ultimately, this case is about the tension between that law and what is just," the told the jury. Greg Hoare, for Mark Gibson, said it would be an infamous day in the English criminal calendar when people were rendered liable to conviction where they had neither moral blame nor criminal intent. Mike Davis, for Marcus Davies, said his client helped the couple with a clear intention not to break the law and because he desired to do good. Judge John Phillips will sum up the case tomorrow (Friday) morning before sending out the jury to consider their verdict. http://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/viewarticle.aspx?id=445860
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