A middle class “Robin Hood” couple have been jailed for three years for running a cannabis factory in their farmhouse, using profits to help sick and poor children in Kenya. To the impoverished Kenyan villagers, their regular visitors, an English couple in their sixties, were lifesavers. They supported children through school, bought computers for an eye hospital nearby and paid for the amputation of a diseased leg that threatened to kill a young man. What they did not know was that the couple’s charity was funded by a “Robin Hood” cannabis operation hidden in the depths of the British countryside. Michael Foster and Susan Cooper pocketed as much as £400,000 during the six-year operation, and spent “much of it” in Africa, a court was told yesterday. They were jailed for three years after admitting four charges of producing the drug and one relating to the proceeds.
