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Mother of the year - NOT!
A mother who bought £300 worth of cocaine as a birthday present for her daughter’s 18th has been spared jail.
Nicola Austen booked a limousine and bought 12 bags of the class A drug to ‘make sure she had a good time’.
The 37-year-old – who is also a grandmother – admitted that she was planning to take the cocaine with her college student daughter on a night of wild celebrations in London.
But Austen was arrested after the drugs were found hidden at her three-bedroom home in Tunbridge Wells in Kent.
Despite admitting possessing cocaine with intent to supply, Austen avoided jail and was instead given a nine-month suspended sentence.
The judge accepted her claims that the drugs were never to be distributed more widely, which he said allowed her to be given a lighter sentence.
But last night, speaking from her £300,000 terraced house, Austen showed little remorse.‘It’s all been blown out of proportion,’ she said. ‘I’ve had enough. It isn’t exactly the scoop of the century, is it? It was a party.’
A sniffer dog found 5.65grams of cocaine divided into 12 ‘wraps’ in sections of her bedroom window during a raid on January 31. Prosecutor Craig Evans told Maidstone Crown Court on Friday that she admitted having the drug to celebrate her daughter’s birthday.
‘They were going to London in a limousine and she wanted to make sure they had a good time,’ he explained.
The mother of three – who has six previous convictions including one for possessing amphetamines – arrived at the hearing with a packed bag, expecting to be jailed.
But she walked free after a judge decided nine months imprisonment could be suspended and 250 hours ‘onerous’ unpaid work imposed.
Danny Moore, defending, had argued there would be an adverse effect on a young boy in the family if Austen – who cares for her 14-year-old son – were jailed.
He added that she also provided respite and care for her elderly grandmother.
Complete article
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... -time.html
Nicola Austen booked a limousine and bought 12 bags of the class A drug to ‘make sure she had a good time’.
The 37-year-old – who is also a grandmother – admitted that she was planning to take the cocaine with her college student daughter on a night of wild celebrations in London.
But Austen was arrested after the drugs were found hidden at her three-bedroom home in Tunbridge Wells in Kent.
Despite admitting possessing cocaine with intent to supply, Austen avoided jail and was instead given a nine-month suspended sentence.
The judge accepted her claims that the drugs were never to be distributed more widely, which he said allowed her to be given a lighter sentence.
But last night, speaking from her £300,000 terraced house, Austen showed little remorse.‘It’s all been blown out of proportion,’ she said. ‘I’ve had enough. It isn’t exactly the scoop of the century, is it? It was a party.’
A sniffer dog found 5.65grams of cocaine divided into 12 ‘wraps’ in sections of her bedroom window during a raid on January 31. Prosecutor Craig Evans told Maidstone Crown Court on Friday that she admitted having the drug to celebrate her daughter’s birthday.
‘They were going to London in a limousine and she wanted to make sure they had a good time,’ he explained.
The mother of three – who has six previous convictions including one for possessing amphetamines – arrived at the hearing with a packed bag, expecting to be jailed.
But she walked free after a judge decided nine months imprisonment could be suspended and 250 hours ‘onerous’ unpaid work imposed.
Danny Moore, defending, had argued there would be an adverse effect on a young boy in the family if Austen – who cares for her 14-year-old son – were jailed.
He added that she also provided respite and care for her elderly grandmother.
Complete article
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... -time.html
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