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Granny takes on the Crown Court, UK
By Hempology | July 15, 2007
News & Star, UK
14 Jul 2007
CANNABIS PLANT GRAN HAS HER SENTENCE CUT
A GRANDMOTHER prosecuted for growing four cannabis plants in a walk-in wardrobe was back in front of a judge yesterday.
But this time Patricia Tabram was not in any trouble.
Instead the 69-year-old, who was convicted and sentenced in March for cultivating the illegal drug, was at Carlisle Crown Court to have part of her sentence dropped.
In March Tabram, after being found guilty of breaking drug laws by growing cannabis to put in her home baked cakes as a medicine, was ordered to do 250 hours unpaid community work, with UKP1,000 court costs.
But yesterday the court heard that the community work she was doing – counselling children in care – was no longer available.
Although she had done only 74 1/2 hours of it, there was nothing else she could do because of a mystery illness which is seeing her lose 1lb every day.
Tabram was not able to provide a medical certificate as evidence of her illness, because she refuses to see a doctor on the grounds that she might pick up some other ailment in the surgery.
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