A FORMER beer can model caught with a cannabis factory worth almost £12,500 in her basement flat has been ordered to pay £8,500.
Karen Thomson, 52, kept the drugs in her daughter’s bedroom to supply them to friends.
But the side business grew and soon Thomson was supplying to others outwith her social group.
She was found out when officers received an anonymous call that her plush flat was being broken into and that her plants were spotted.
At Glasgow Sheriff Court, the landscape gardening business owner admitted supplying cannabis between October 2012 and May 2013.
In July 2015 she was given a community payback order with the condition she must carry out 300 hours’ unpaid work and wasn’t allowed to leave her house between 7pm and 7am for 100 days.
Thomson has now been ordered to hand over £8,500 under Proceeds of Crime legislation.
The court previously heard there were 52 plants at different stages of growth with equipment to “optimise growing conditions”.
The former model was one of the Tennent’s can girls – known as The Lager Lovelies – who appeared on beer cans and billboards across Scotland between 1988 and 1991.
The long-running advertising campaign began in 1962 and ended in 1991. Today, original Lager Lovely cans are highly sought after among collectors.
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