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Drugs stash was found at cottage
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, 871 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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