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Jurors were told Mrs Claughton lived next door but one to her ex-husband on Brierley Road in Grimethorpe. The court previously heard Mr Claughton's home had been rigged up with booby traps in the style of the Home Alone film. At the hearing on Tuesday, Mrs Claughton said she had been away from her property for two weeks when she was arrested in Skegness on 8 May 2024. Mrs Claughton claimed she knew there had been a box of Maltesers in her fridge, but said it had contained chocolate when she left the property. She insisted she had "no knowledge whatsoever" about the drugs, adding: "I didn't put amphetamines in a chocolate box that I willingly let the children go and get chocolate from." Vanessa Saxton, defending, said no DNA from Mrs Claughton was found on the chocolate box, but it did contain a match for her ex-husband. Asked by Judge Graham Reeds KC why she thought the drugs were being stored at her house, Mrs Claughton said her ex-husband had told her his fridge was broken. She admitted storing cash for her ex-husband inside her sofa, but said she believed the money, which she had sorted into £1,000 bundles, had been obtained from the sale of stock from his former auto electrics business. Mrs Claughton told the court: "He has always been a businessman. He always deals in cash."
