Drunk dinner lady baked cannabis cookies and gave them to schoolchildren she met in a pub and told them ‘I’m your nanna’
Grandma Lesley Collins, 61, - nicknamed the Cookie Lady - fed the homemade 'space cakes' to two girls and two boys aged 12 and 13
A SCHOOL dinner lady baked cannabis biscuits and fed them to children she met in a pub, a court heard.
Grandma Lesley Collins, 61 — nicknamed the Cookie Lady — fed the homemade "space cakes" to two girls and two boys aged 12 and 13.
Collins, described in court as an artist and former teacher, said to the two girls “I'm your nanna" when they went to use the toilet at the Corporation Arms in Grimsby, Lincs.
She then handed them some of her homemade biscuits from a knitted bag.
Prosecutor Jeremy Evans said: “She kept telling the group that she was a dinner lady and a grandmother."
One of the girls went back to the area of the pub to ask what it was they had eaten.
She had eaten about half a biscuit and felt dizzy and sick.
The other girl said that the biscuit “tasted sweet and disgusting at the same time" as she munched it.
Mr Evans: “She ate a small mouthful before throwing it away. She was sick and was left with a shaky feeling."
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A boy who ate a biscuit did not suffer any ill-effects. Another had possible traces of cannabis in his urine.
Collins was arrested after the youngsters approached a police community support officer just before 8.40pm.
The gran told officers: “It's despicable. I didn't know I had done it. I was drunk."
A small amount of cannabis was seized from her home and bags of biscuits were found in a wheelie bin.
Mr Evans said: “She has supplied them to children on the street, having knowingly tried to gain their trust."
Nick Worsley, mitigating, said Collins had turned to self-medicating with cannabis for depression but was not a drug pusher.
The barrister said: “She did not know what was going on that evening.
“She accepts she supplied these hash cakes, these biscuits that ended up in the hands of the children.
“She cooked up a batch of these things and she then took to eating one or two herself.
“It was not a case of loitering on a street corner trying to trap anyone into taking drugs.
“She had drunk four pints. The combination of prescription drugs and alcohol and, perhaps, cannabis has caused her to behave in this utterly abnormal way.
“She is devastated by what she has done. She is very concerned for the children who were involved in this.
“It was an isolated and reckless event."
Collins, of Cleethorpes, admitted supplying cannabis and was given a six-month suspended jail sentence with ten days' rehabilitation.
Judge David Tremberg told her at Grimsby crown court: “This was seriously irresponsible and abnormal behaviour.
“If you had not been so intoxicated, you would not have dreamed of doing this.
“Mercifully, none of them were seriously harmed. You cannot possibly have known what effect giving children of this age cannabis biscuits might have had on them.
“In their disoriented state, they might have been run over. You were drunkenly oblivious to the risk you posed to them."
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