Police have found the biggest cannabis farm in Nottingham - which could grow £1m of the drug. About 1,300 plants were found in Hendon Rise, St Ann's.
A mum-of-two agreed to smuggle drugs into prison inside Mars bars to get criminals off her back, a court heard.She smuggled 144 wraps of cannabis, diazepam, heroin and ecstasy inside balloons in the hollowed out bars into Lowdham Grange.
But her suspicious behaviour - toing-and-froing from the visitors' canteen to buy Mars bars - aroused the suspicions of custody staff.
She was seen with two bars on her tray before whipping a third one out from under her top.
When officers arrested her they discovered the top of the bar was bitten off and a balloon was poking out from inside. The drugs were worth £1,000.
More drugs were found in a car she was using.
Cocaine worth £500,000 has been seized by police after a raid at a house in Nottingham, detectives said today.
Officers recovered the haul after entering an address in Target Street near Radford Boulevard on Thursday, May 29 and arrested two people.
So thats how many kilos of drugs seized that you won't be able to get high on this weekend? Shame. Never mind, you can always go and have tea and some biccies with your old Aunty Margaret Hodge MP and tell her all about it!
Surprise Wiggaz!
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04/06/2008
1 comments:
Well, what do we expect from Lowdham Grange...one of the two privatly ran prisons in the UK.
Back in the late 80's, it was for minor offenders and the inmates there were often taken out on 'work parties', helping repair the roads/trim hedgerows etc.... It was then closed, and used as a training facility for some time. In 1998 it then re-opened as a sex-offenders institute...(Catagory B Prisoners...sex offenders serving more than four years) and has since had a new 120-bed wing built including multi-faith worship facilities.
SERCO, the company that manages the Prison (still refered to as HMP however) states that their main aim is rehabilitation and prevention of repeat offences, how can they do this when they allow drugs to be brought in so easily....However,in a study in Germany, sex offenders that were offered early release in return for chemical castration had less than a 1% repeat offence rate, as opposed to the 70+% rate across the rest of Europe. Perhaps this should be offered here?
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