Suppliers of cannabis-laced chocolate bars to MS sufferers walk free

THREE people who supplied thousands of chocolate bars laced with cannabis to multiple sclerosis sufferers walked free from court yesterday.

Mark Gibson, 42, his wife Lezley, 42, who has multiple sclerosis (MS), and Marcus Davies, 36, were each given a nine-month jail term, suspended for two years.

All three defendants argued the drug eased the symptoms of MS and believed they had a defence of medical necessity but this was rejected by a jury last month.