A husband who turned his £1million rural home into a cannabis farm after he started using the drug to self-medicate his cancer has been jailed.
Mark Ayres, 71, was caught with £46,000 of marijuana alongside his wife Marion, 70, when police raided their remote four-bed home in Attleborough, Norfolk.
The couple, who have been married for more than five decades, appeared at Norwich Crown Court on Thursday where they were both sentenced for drug offences.
Mr Ayres began researching the medicinal benefits of the Class-B drug when he was diagnosed with cancer in 2018, the court heard.
He used the former gym in his
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