Patricia Tabram. Photograph: Owen
Humphreys/PAThe so-called cannabis grandma, Patricia Tabram, 68, faces a possible jail term after a jury today decided she had breached the six-month suspended sentence she was given in April 2005.
So should the grandmother, from Humshaugh, Northumberland, who advocates the health-giving properties of the cannabis-laced casseroles and other dishes she makes at her bungalow, go to prison?
The judge at an earlier trial said he did not want to make a martyr of Tabram among pro-cannabis campaigners by putting her in jail.
But the judge in the latest proceedings, Barbara Forrester, said jail had to be considered as Tabram was in breach of her original sentence. She may be sentenced this afternoon after reports; if she is, we will keep you updated.
She seems to have a defiant attitude towards serving time, saying today she would be "everyone's granny" in prison and adding: "I won't have any medicine, I suppose. I will have to ask my son to bring in my walking stick and neck brace."
It was also revealed today that Tabram had caused chaos in court earlier in the trial by revealing that cannabis she smuggled into court to put forward as evidence had temporarily gone missing.
Update: Tabram walked free from Carlisle crown court after being ordered to pay £1,000 costs and carry out 250 hours' unpaid work for cultivating four cannabis plants and possessing the drug in powdered form. The conviction, her second, could yet see her evicted from her housing association bungalow.
