TWO MUMS CAUGHT WITH £123,000 WORTH OF COCAINE IN SHOPPING BAG

Two mums from Manchester were reportedly getting ready for lunch when police raided the property they were at and found them with £123,000 worth of the Class A drug.

Courtney Larkin, 24, and Ellie Mortin, 21, were sat in Larkin's home in Stalybridge surrounded by a kilo of coke next to them with an further 37 weighed, cut and packaged already to sell. The police have likened to haul to ‘an evidential paradise'.

The women offered no comment whilst being interviewed and refused to hand over their phone pin numbers. Nonetheless, police managed to break the codes and were able to confirm between April 8 and May 6, the day the women were arrested, Larkin had been running a drugs line, which involved her supplying, selling and delivering drugs in addition to organising other people to sell the drugs.

It is reported that Mortin ‘naively' got involved in helping her friend bag up the drugs after arriving at the property to get a lift to lunch the pair had organised.


Both women have been found guilty - Larkin has been sentenced for nearly five years after the court heard that she had moved in with her dad and just reconciled with her nine-year-old son.

Mortin was handed a two-year prison sentence, suspended for 20 months after claiming she had not intended to be complicit. In addition she is the subject of
a curfew between 8pm and 7am, and will also have to complete 150 hours of community service.