An uncle spiked a children’s chocolate cake with cannabis whilst it was being baked by his seven year old nephew ‘because a voice told him to do it’.
Lee Kelly, 38, waited for the boy to step away from the cake before secretly sprinkling the drug into the mixture.
Where is it snowing in the UK? Snow reports from London, Midlands and HumbersideThe unsuspecting boy later put the mixture into the oven before eating some of the cake with his parents for tea the following day.
All three became sick and dizzy due to the effects of the drug, with the boy complaining of feeling unwell during school hours.
Police were called in after the parents examined the remaining slices of the cake and realised they contained cannabis.
The boy was taken to his GP and traces of the drug were found in his system.
It emerged Kelly from Dukinfield, Greater Manchester had crept into the kitchen, burnt two joints worth of weed on printing paper before pouring the ashes in the cake mix whilst the boy was in the dining room with other members of his family.
The incident occurred on January 21 2017 during a family get together at the home of Kelly’s mother, Minshull Street Crown Court was told.
Touching note praising paramedics left on ambulance windscreenProsecutor Robert Smith said: ‘The boy and his mother had gone to her parents’ address together with him and his grandma they baked a cake mix which they left on the side whilst they went into the dining room.
‘This defendant wandered into the kitchen and put cannabis into the cake mix and mixed it together. The boy and his grandma came back and put the cake mix straight into the oven.
‘The cake was split in half and the boy’s mother took half of the cake home with her, which they then consumed the following evening.
‘The next day her husband, started to feel unwell, he was feeling the side effect of the cannabis into the early hours of the morning. The boy’s mother felt nauseous and the boy himself was found to be feeling dizzy and told his teachers at school that his mouth felt dry.
‘Over a number of hours passed and they were still feeling unwell. The boy’s mother thought to herself it must have been something they had eaten and they looked at the cake.
‘Both her and and her husband picked a bit of the cake out and and they knew it was cannabis.
Lamb has to be taught how to be a sheep as it thinks it's a dog‘The following day the boy was kept off school because he was feeling unwell. The husband also had to come home from work early. The decision was taken to call the police and the boy’s mother notified the defendant.
‘When she spoke to him about the cannabis he told her that he didn’t know what she was talking about as she had told him to put it in their in the first place. He accepted he did it, but explained that a voice had told him to do it.
‘The boy was taken to his local GP where he gave a urine sample and they found evidence of broken down products of cannabis.’
The court heard Kelly later told police a ‘voice in his head’ which sounded like his sister, told him to do it ‘telepathically.’
Mr Smith added: ‘He had heard his sister through these voices who told him to put the cannabis in the cake mixture.
‘He admitted listening to these voices and told them when he arrived at his parents house, he went upstairs and grabbed several pieces of A4 printing paper and burnt the cannabis on it, scrolled the paper up and poured the cannabis into the cake mixture, mixing it in.
‘He told himself that they needed more in the mixture so he went back upstairs and burnt some more and mixed that in too. He said to them that people communicate with him telepathically and when ‘they’ told him about the cannabis, he thought it was fantastic.
Every beggar in Ely 'is a fraud' as police say they're making lots of money‘He said there was no intention of harm involved and he explained to officers that it was only a couple of joints worth of cannabis that he put in.’
The court heard the boy’s mother withdrew her statement against her brother whilst her husband said whilst he was upset with Kelly, he ‘did not want to make anything worse.’
Kelly admitted administering a noxious substance and was sentenced to six months jail suspended for a year.
His lawyer, Phillip Barnes said in mitigation: ‘He was extremely unwell and had consumed a large amount of alcohol and drugs. Since the incident he has ceased using drugs in an attempt to improve his mental health and has found this has really helped him.
Passing sentence Judge Stuart Driver QC told Kelly: ‘It is important for the public to understand this man was going through severe mental illness at the time of the incident.’
Kelly was also ordered to complete 20 days of rehabilitation requirement activities as well as a thinking skills programme.
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