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Jeanette Hurst, 58, from Waterfoot gave her cancer sufferer husband chewy sweets laced with cannabis oil
A wife who produced £34,000 worth of cannabis in a bid ‘for her dying husband’ has walked free from court after the judge ruled she did not do it for commercial gain.
Jeanette Hurst, 58, grew the drugs to extract the ‘hemp oil’ to give to her cancer-suffering husband Roy, Burnley Crown Court heard.
Hurst said she acted after hearing that the drug would help his condition.
The hearing was told that Mr Hurst, a former prison and drugs officer, ate the oil with chewy fruit sweets to mask the taste.
Police attended Mrs Hurst’s home on Burnley Road East in Waterfoot in June last year after a tip-off and found a ‘strong smell of cannabis’.
The court heard officers found 1.7kg worth of cannabis
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