A decision by Merseyside Police to search the home of a 99-year-old woman with Alzheimer's for a suspected cannabis farm will be probed by the High Court.
Officers entered the Speke home of the great-grandmother, known as Peggy to her family, after "intelligence" suggested her home may have been taken over by drugs gangs to grow the Class B drug, a practice known as "cuckooing". However, nothing was found at the property.
The force said they had conducted the search "sensitively" based on intelligence, believed to have included a tip-off suggesting the home was "unusually warm", but her family were deeply upset by the search warrant, particularly as it fell on the same day as the funeral of one of Peggy's sons.
