A COUPLE who turned their Forest of Dean home into a cannabis factory have been cleared of intending to supply the drug.

Polish-born Katarzyna Dryden-Chouen, 46, and her husband Clive, 60, who admitted cultivating and smoking cannabis, were also cleared of money laundering charges by a Gloucester Crown Court jury after a three week trial.

Mrs Dryden-Chouen had told the court she intended to burn much of the cannabis as a sacrifice to the Hindu god Shiva because she believed the world was going to end on December 21 last year.

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