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Cannabis Cookies Grandmother Spared Jail
Rod Minchin PA News
Thursday 07 Apr 2005 A grandmother who cooked up treats laced with cannabis for her friends and neighbours walked free from court today. Patricia Tabram, who prides herself on her home-made herbal cookies, casseroles and soups, admitted possessing cannabis with intent to supply from her home in East Lea, Humshaugh, near Hexham, Northumberland. The sprightly 66-year-old, who cuts an unlikely figure as a drug dealer, had cooked up treats laced with the drug for neighbours and friends in her village after being introduced to it last year. Today, Tabram returned to Newcastle Crown Court to be sentenced. Jailing the former chef for six months, suspended for two years, Judge David Hodson, the Recorder of Newcastle, said the offence was so serious only a jail sentence was appropriate, however he would not be making her a martyr. He said: "People in this part of the world cannot fail to have noticed that you have been caught up in a media circus. "It might be that you have been trying to tempt the courts into making a martyr of you. I am not going to do this. "I consider that this offence merits imprisonment which I fix at six months. However, I am persuaded that there are exceptional circumstances which justifies a suspension of the sentence for a period of two years."
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