A COUPLE were caught with a stash of drugs worth up to £5,550 after police raided their rural home.
Police swooped on Karen Meade, 27, and Scott Brook, 33, at Clough Cottages, Soyland, the morning after the couple had hosted a party at the address.
Calderdale magistrates heard officers uncovered a substantial haul including cocaine, marijuana, 8
71 Diazepam tablets, weighing scales and small polythene bags.
Mohammed Ashraf, prosecuting, said: "Officers executed a drugs warrant at 9.20am and found the drugs at various points in the house.
"The couple told officers the drugs were for their personal use and Meade said: "We buy in bulk, it is a lot cheaper."
"A drugs officer valued the drugs at between £664 and £5,496."
The couple have since separated and now live at different addresses.
Maggie Cavanagh, for Meade, of Cleveland Avenue, Siddal, Halifax, said: "The relationship was an unhappy one, a controlling one, and one in which violence was used.
"Meade says her involvement in drug use was down to this.
"She is a decent respectable and thoroughly honest woman."
Bill Rawstron, for Brook, of Jowler, Luddenden, said: "It is not right he was responsible for the other's undoing.
"Each of the co-defendents were adults and responsible for their own actions."
The pair both pleaded guilty to possession of the drugs following the raid on November 10, 2007. They each received a 12-month community order and were ordered to do 100 hours unpaid work and told to pay £43 costs.
The drugs and paraphernalia were destroyed.
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