Diane Gibson, 72, grandmother of Big Brother
winner Josie Gibson, was sentenced to more than four years in prison
today for drugs offences
The reality TV personality, who changed her outfit before returning to the court this afternoon, joined other members of her family at Bristol Crown Court to see Diane Gibson, 72, sentenced to four years and three months’ imprisonment.
The grandmother had been on the run for more than 12 years having been convicted in 2000 at Bristol Crown Court of possessing cocaine with intent to supply.
Gibson had been originally arrested by police in 1998 at a motorway services with 2.9kg of cocaine - with a street value of £240,000 - in the boot of her car.
She had been bailed to return to court for sentence but failed to appear and remained at large, living in the north of England away from her family.
Police arrested the pensioner in April this year at her daughter's home in Yate, South Gloucestershire, and today she returned to court to be sentenced.
Jailing the great-grandmother, Judge Geoffrey Mercer QC said: 'I sentence you on the basis you were a courier of this amount of cocaine.
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