A 77-year-old woman is to be fitted with an electronic tag after being caught with £1,300-worth of cocaine in her handbag. At an earlier hearing at Exeter Magistrates' Court Betty Lily Nicholls, of Bude, Cornwall, admitted possessing the class A drug. Her car was stopped on the M5 last November by police acting on a tip-off. She is the subject of a 60-day curfew order and will have to stay indoors at night as well as wear the tag. It is unusual for somebody to give a stranger 27.4 grams of class A drugs She was also told to pay £60 costs. Mr Sean Tipton, prosecuting, said a marked police car had received a tip off and stopped a grey Ford Focus car on the M5 11 months ago. Officers stopped the car and both the man driving and Mrs Nicholls appeared "very nervous and avoided eye contact". The drugs were found in a yellow bag in...
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