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UK: Cannabis posted to sick mother

The Times

Friday 21 Sep 2001

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A MILITARY policeman posted cannabis-filled cigarettes to his seriously ill
mother in an attempt to alleviate her suffering, a court martial was told
yesterday.
Matthew Taylor hid the five joints in a bag with packets of ordinary
cigarettes and tried to send them via the British Forces postal service
from his base in Paderborn, Germany, to his mother, who was severely
disabled after two strokes. A postal official X-rayed the package and
alerted customs and the Military Police Special Investigation Branch.

Taylor, 30, who had admitted the offence in a letter to the Prime Minister,
told the court martial in Colchester, Essex: 'I am a man who has made the
mistake of loving his mother beyond the call of duty.'

Last night he was on his way back to his mother's hospital bedside in
Kirkwall, Orkney, after being dismissed the service.

 

 

 

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