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UK: Tories suspect a plant as office goes to pot
David Ward The Guardian
Wednesday 12 Jun 2002 What kind of dope would sow a cannabis plant in a Conservative party flower bed? A political conspirator high on plots? A casual user looking for an unlikely cultivation patch? A Tory with a guilty secret and an understandable terror of the wrath of Ann Widdecombe? That is the puzzle facing south Wales police. A party worker - a former police officer - found the plant in the gardens of the Welsh Conservative central office in Cardiff. "We have not got a clue how it got there," said a party spokesman. "As it was quite close to the main road the suspicion must be someone thought it would be a very safe place to plant it." Nick Bourne, Conservative leader in Wales, told Radio 4's Today that the "large and rambling" grounds were open to the road. "I think it is just somebody seeing an opportunity to plant this stuff," he added. "I don't suppose for a minute that it is a Conservative party member."
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