Elderly couple avoids jail over cannabis find

[Oz]

An elderly Perth couple has been given a 16-month suspended jail term after being convicted of possessing cannabis with intent to supply.

 

Last week, 81-year-old David Davies and his 77-year-old wife, Florence, were found guilty of the charge following a police raid on their home in 2002 in which 19 kilograms of cannabis were discovered.

 

The haul was valued at more than $250,000.

 

During the trial the couple's son said he had placed the drugs in his parents' home without their knowledge.

 

Past News on This Topic

 

Author: ABC

Date: 08/06/04

Source: ABC News

Copyright: 2004 Australian Broadcasting Corporation

[calyx]

The D.P.P are still deciding whether to proceed with charges relating to traficking cannabis, which could lead to the loss of the couples house(the house was built by mr. Davies, a returned serviceman). - CALYX.

[Tom]

A bit of an update.

 

Australia's oldest drug traffickers accused Western Australia's Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) on Tuesday of being a criminal who wanted to rob them of their life savings.

 

The assets of World War II veteran David Davies, 81, and his wife Florence Davies, 77, are set to be seized by WA's DPP, following convictions that stemmed from the police discovery of 19kg of cannabis in their Perth home in 2002.

 

After the DPP announced the couple's assets would be confiscated under tough WA laws, the Davies vowed never to leave the home they built themselves more than 50 years ago.

 

A furious Mrs Davies on Tuesday said DPP Robert Cock was the criminal - not she and her husband.

 

"If we were drug traffickers, don't you think we would have had a bit of luxury somewhere - you want to see our humble home," she told 6PR radio.

 

"I'm not going - they are not putting us out. If they come to take us they will drag us out, if they haven't killed us first, because that is their aim.

 

"That money, our bit of life savings, that is our pension savings. They are the criminals, the DPP, they have stolen that money from us."

 

Mr and Mrs Davies were each given a 16-month suspended jail sentence last month, after being convicted of two counts of possessing cannabis with intent to supply.

 

Authorities also discovered $7,000 in cash the pair claimed they had saved from their pension for a holiday.

 

The DPP last Friday applied to have the couple officially declared drug traffickers, meaning the state could seize their home and assets, estimated at about $300,000.

 

DPP director of legal services Fiona Low said the DPP would negotiate with the couple's lawyers, and consider various options, including possibly letting the couple remain in the house rent free.

 

During his parents' trial, Tyssul Davies, 52, claimed the drugs were his.

 

Mrs Davies said on Tuesday she was "heartbroken" that her son had placed them in the position where they might lose everything.

 

"He used us and I am very saddened, very very disappointed and heartbroken, because I trusted him and this is the situation we have landed up in through no fault of our own," she said.

 

Author: Tim Clarke

Date: 22/06/04

Source: Seven Network

Copyright: Copyright 2004 Seven Network (Operations) Ltd

 

[SoDrysBro]

damm druggies. :: should of known better..