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Police mistake tomatoes for cannabis plants

A 79-year old widow’s cottage was raided by Police after they mistook her tomato plants for cannabis.

The Daily Mail reports that the Police burst into Lulu Matheson’s home in the Scottish Highlands with sniffer dogs, and took samples for analysis.

Lulu Matheson, of Shieldaig, said: “I got a terrible fright and I couldn’t understand what they were doing here because I knew we had nothing more than tomatoes in the window. I don’t know what the neighbours must be thinking.”

Her 47-year-old son Gus, a former driver, was looking out of the window when he saw police cars stop outside.

He said: “I wondered what on earth was going on. I opened the door and they more or less barged past, saying that I was growing cannabis on the windowsills.

“I started laughing because I knew they were tomato plants but it wasn’t so funny when they frisked me and then started tearing the house apart.”

Mr Matheson is now making a formal complaint to Northern Constabulary.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .