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UK: Sick old woman guilty of cannabis cooking

The Malta Star

Wednesday 07 Mar 2007

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Patricia Tabram, 68, found guilty of cultivating and cooking pies with
cannabis.

A controversial case is turning into a debate in Britain as a 68 year
old Patricia Tabram was found guilty and set to be jailed for marijuana
possession.

Police were almost called into a courtroom to find a stash of missing
drugs cannabis gran Patricia Tabram claims to have smuggled in inside
her bra, it has emerged, Sky News reported.

Granny Tabram voiced her support for legalising marijuana for health
treatment. She said she used cannabis to ease the body pain of two
serious car crashes and a depression.

After a tip-off, Police raided Tabram’s residence last week and found
four plants of marijuana in her wardrobe. She was in breach of six month
sentence handed in 2005 after she was found with cannabis possession.

However after just 15 minutes, the jury of six men and six women came
back with unanimous guilty verdicts for the two counts, one of
possessing the drug and one of cultivating it.

Tabram, who is defending herself, told the court: "I am old and I am
tired, and I am disappointed, not in the result by the jury. I am
disappointed in the attitude of the court regarding someone my age with
my health problems and the way I deal with it. I just want to go home
and get some rest."

Before the proceedings, the grandmother of two said she was unafraid of
going to prison, the Guardian reported.

"I will be with all women in there and they will treat me like a queen.
I will be everyone's granny in there. I won't have any medicine, I
suppose. I will have to ask my son to bring in my walking stick and neck
brace."

She was given a suspended six-month jail sentence at Newcastle Crown
Court in April 2005 by Judge David Hodson after she was found with
plants and cannabis worth Lm500, which she used to make curries,
casseroles, biscuits and soups for local people. The judge that day
declined to make her "a martyr" by jailing her.

The woman described the police who arrested her as "gentlemen" and
warmly greeted Tom Moran, who was prosecuting, as he came into court.

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