Drug dealer ordered mum to sell drugs from family home in string of shameful texts

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Police found £6,000 of cannabis, digital scales, snap bags and a vacuum sealing machine in his bedroom. A tick list titled "The Graft" was also discovered showing amounts of cash owed totalling more than £31,000.

But even more shocking were messages on his mobile phone, which showed he was running the business with the help of 52-year-old mum Sharon Cowhig, the Liverpool Echo reports.

The pair ended up in the dock together at Liverpool Crown Court when he was sent to prison but she narrowly avoided jail.When cops raided the family home in Grantham Road, Kirby at 7.10am on July 2 last year, Jake claimed 596g - around 20 ounces of cannabis - found in his bedroom drawers was all for his own personal use.He also denied any knowledge of the tick.