A mother of two who ran a drug dealing racket from her family home has been spared jail after she blamed her criminal conduct on a toxic relationship she once had with an ex-boyfriend.
Lorraine Chadwick, 43, was arrested in a drugs bust at the three-bed home she shares with her teenage son during which officers found a £1,600 haul of cocaine, cannabis, MDMA and prescription only sleeping tablets.
Chadwick, of Higher Blackley, Manchester later claimed she had been "pressured" into dealing by her former partner but admitted carrying on with her drugs operation after they split up.
