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Cannabis factory couple who gave away their £400,000 drug-dealing fortune to poor Kenyan village are jailed for three years
By LARISA BROWN
PUBLISHED: 04:42 EST, 18 October 2012 | UPDATED: 10:46 EST, 18 October 2012
A couple who ran a cannabis factory and spent their fortune on helping poor African families and charities have been jailed.
Michael Foster, 62, and Susan Cooper, 63, made £400,000 by illegally growing hundreds of plants at their farmhouse home during a six-year operation.
But instead of pocketing the money, they spent a large proportion of it on people in a Kenyan village - paying for life-saving surgery, computers for an eye hospital and schooling for poor children.
When the pair, from Lincolnshire, were not helping people in Kenya, they were living an incredible double life selling wholesale kilo deals of cannabis to a local drugs baron. Although the Judge appeared impressed with their good work, they were jailed for three years at Lincoln Crown Court.
Prosecutor Jon Dee told the court Foster and Cooper’s life was the 'most unusual cannabis growing case of its type'.
He added: 'This couple were both in their 60s and were of previous good character.
'For six years they produced cannabis in significant quantities. This was a *professional and commercial set up.'
Gareth Wheetman, representing Foster, said. 'The very fact they were repeatedly flying off to Kenya in itself required money but the evidence demonstrates much of the money was being put to charitable and good use.'
Cooper’s lawyer, Chris Milligan, added: 'Susan Cooper is a good person who has done a bad thing. There is another side to her.
In 2004 the couple converted two buildings on their farm in Long Sutton, Lincolnshire into a cannabis factory
'When a young adult called Wilson got a gangrenous infection in his leg he was given two days to live. She paid for that treatment.'
The court heard how the couple were regular visitors to a village in the Kwale district, near the tourist coastal town of Mombasa, Kenya.
The couple told police much of the money they illegally obtained was spent helping the local people they met.
They used the money to pay for life-saving surgery for people in the village and schooling for the children (file photo)
Read more: Cannabis factory couple who gave £400,000 drug dealing fortune to poor Kenyans jailed for three years | Mail Online
By LARISA BROWN
PUBLISHED: 04:42 EST, 18 October 2012 | UPDATED: 10:46 EST, 18 October 2012
A couple who ran a cannabis factory and spent their fortune on helping poor African families and charities have been jailed.
Michael Foster, 62, and Susan Cooper, 63, made £400,000 by illegally growing hundreds of plants at their farmhouse home during a six-year operation.
But instead of pocketing the money, they spent a large proportion of it on people in a Kenyan village - paying for life-saving surgery, computers for an eye hospital and schooling for poor children.
When the pair, from Lincolnshire, were not helping people in Kenya, they were living an incredible double life selling wholesale kilo deals of cannabis to a local drugs baron. Although the Judge appeared impressed with their good work, they were jailed for three years at Lincoln Crown Court.
Prosecutor Jon Dee told the court Foster and Cooper’s life was the 'most unusual cannabis growing case of its type'.
He added: 'This couple were both in their 60s and were of previous good character.
'For six years they produced cannabis in significant quantities. This was a *professional and commercial set up.'
Gareth Wheetman, representing Foster, said. 'The very fact they were repeatedly flying off to Kenya in itself required money but the evidence demonstrates much of the money was being put to charitable and good use.'
Cooper’s lawyer, Chris Milligan, added: 'Susan Cooper is a good person who has done a bad thing. There is another side to her.
In 2004 the couple converted two buildings on their farm in Long Sutton, Lincolnshire into a cannabis factory
'When a young adult called Wilson got a gangrenous infection in his leg he was given two days to live. She paid for that treatment.'
The court heard how the couple were regular visitors to a village in the Kwale district, near the tourist coastal town of Mombasa, Kenya.
The couple told police much of the money they illegally obtained was spent helping the local people they met.
They used the money to pay for life-saving surgery for people in the village and schooling for the children (file photo)
Read more: Cannabis factory couple who gave £400,000 drug dealing fortune to poor Kenyans jailed for three years | Mail Online
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