2015-12-17
Tennis club worker spared jail for holding cocaine to repay drug debt
Stage: Sentence
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: The judge said the higher courts had ruled that the offence must lead to an immediate prison term and that Clarke "richly" deserved a custodial sentence. However, he said he was going to take a chance on her because of her young son and her voluntary community work and imposed a five year suspended sentence.