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UK: Soldier sent his mother cannabis

Thomas Penny

The Telegraph

Friday 21 Sep 2001

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A MILITARY policeman who admitted sending his disabled mother cannabis
cigarettes to help alleviate her pain was dismissed from the Army yesterday.

L/Cpl Matthew Taylor, 30, said that he sent five "joints" from his base in
Paderborn, Germany, using the British Forces Postal Service, to his
mother's home in East Sussex.

A court martial in Colchester heard that she had suffered two strokes and
was unable to speak properly or write.

She had often used cannabis to help with her pain and Taylor travelled to
Amsterdam to buy the drug.

The foil-wrapped cigarettes were discovered when a postal worker X-rayed a
package.

Taylor admitted unlawfully supplying cannabis and "disobedience of standing
orders by posting 120 cigarettes to a non-entitled person".

Last night he was travelling to his mother's new home in Orkney, where he
had moved her while going absent without leave.

 

 

 

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