UK News 28-01-2005 who: 66 year-old grandmother Patricia Tabram what: Admits throwing cannabis dinner parties for elderly friends where: Crown Court, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE when: Tuesday snippet: "She began using it in soups, cakes and hot pots in her country kitchen and introduced others to the secret ingredient,"says The Telegraph. "She told police that she had clubbed together with a group of elderly people to obtain cannabis for various medicinal reasons." Elsewhere, the paper reports that a Dutch bank robber "has been allowed to claim the 1,400 cost of the gun he used as a legitimate business expense". In rather more distressing crime news, two 17-year-old boys and a 16-year-old girl in Sheffield pleaded guilty to the murder of a 17 year-old boy with an agricultural scythe; The Independent reports that a white farmer in South Africa has pleased guilty to feeding one of his workers to a pride of lions; in Eastbourne, a homeless woman was stabbed 16 times and set alight in what police called "a frenzied attack"; The Mirror alleges that there is a "sex-for-booze-and-drugs" scandal at top security women`s prison, Bullwood Hall, in Essex; and The Sun reports that a 23 year-old male teacher, who recently won an award for his work, has been jailed for downloading child porn. [... more]

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