‘And when I woke up, I found this skunk weed farm in my living room’

A mother accused of running a cannabis farm with her grown up children claimed she went to sleep and awoke to find the crop had sprouted in the living room. Sharon Gregoire, 52, was arrested after police raided her semi-detached home in east London early on 15 November last year to find nearly ten kilos of the drug worth £96,000. Scattered through the house were mounds of plants, with the cannabis ‘bud’ in the process of being extracted from the…