Knowlege of Chemistry Helped Teacher Build Cannabies Factory: Female Walter White turned her house into drugs factory. Ordered to hand over $78,500 (£55,000) with husband

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  Susan McKay, 58, turned seven-bedroom house into a cannabis factory   
Has been ordered to pay $48,000 (£33,500) and husband Owen, 73, must pay $31,000 (£22,000)   
Mrs McKay was given 20-month suspended sentence and was struck off   
Son Michael McKay, 27, received suspended jail term and must pay $2,900 (£2,000)

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A former chemistry teacher who turned her seven-bedroom house into a cannabis factory has been ordered to pay more than $78,500 (£55,000) , along with her husband, or face jail today.

Susan McKay, 58, - in a move reminiscent of Walter White in the hit US show Breaking Bad - began growing drugs after one of her sons took his own life and her husband was having a long term affair.

Three bedrooms in the home she lived in with husband Owen McKay, 73, in Llandyrnog near Denbigh, Wales, were devoted to growing cannabis and one bathroom had been converted to a drying room.

The 'bizarre' plan came about because of Mrs McKay was overwhelmed by personal tragedy and financial problems, Mold Crown Court heard.

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Susan McKay, 58, turned her house into a cannabis factory and has been ordered to pay £33,500 in a move reminiscent of fictional teacher turned drug lord Walter White (right)

Both Mrs McKay and her son Michael McKay, 27, of Huntington, Chester, pleaded guilty to conspiring to supply cannabis between December 2013 and April 2014. 

Husband Owen McKay admitted the conspiracy on the basis he turned a blind eye to what the others were doing and that he claimed he had no financial benefit from it.

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 Son:  Michael McKay, 27, (of Huntington, Chester, pleaded guilty to conspiring to supply cannabis

Michael McKay, an Olympic-prospect boxer, risked his sporting career by trying to help his mother with her 'ridiculous' plan, the court heard.

Mrs McKay, who was still teaching at the time of her sentence in May last year, but has since been struck off by a disciplinary body, was ordered to pay $48,000 (£33,500) or serve nine months in jail at today's financial hearing order. 

The £33,500 figure was said to be her criminal benefit – but Mold Crown Court heard that she had assets of $378,285 (£264,800) and would be able to pay. 

Owen McKay’s criminal benefit was judged to be #31,500 (£22,000) which he was ordered to pay within three months or serve nine months in default.

His assets, some of them jointly with his wife, were said to be #321,000 (£230,500). 

Son Michael’s benefit was put at £2,000 and he was given three months to pay or serve two months in default. 

The agreed order was made by Mr Recorder Ian Murphy QC who said that a potentially complicated hearing had been avoided.

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Husband:  Owen McKay, 73, (pictured) admitted the conspiracy on the basis he turned a blind eye to the drugs

At a previous hearing Mrs McKay wept as the sentencing judge, Mr Recorder Wyn Lloyd Jones, said he would suspend their prison sentences. 

Owen McKay received five months prison, suspended for 12 months and ordered he attend a course run by the probation service. 

Mrs McKay and her son both received 20 months imprisonment suspended for 18 months with 250 hours of unpaid work. 

The court heard that the son had been stopped by police near Ruthin for driving without lights when they detected the smell of cannabis and a search of his car revealed 162 grammes of cannabis worth about £1,620. 

Photo: Andrew Price/View Finder PicturesInside the McKay's seven-bedroom country house (pictured) police found three bedrooms which were devoted to growing cannabis with a black growing tent with silver foil and ventilation tubes

He was on his way to his parents’ house in Llandyrnog and police later searched both his and his parents’ home, a seven bedroom house, surrounded by high walls, which had CCTV. 

Inside the country house, they found three bedrooms which were devoted to growing cannabis with a black growing tent with silver foil and ventilation tubes. 

One bathroom was being used as a drying room. Experts estimated the three growing zones with 115 plants had the potential to produce a yield with a street value between £32,200 and £96,600. 

Breaking Bad is an American crime drama television series which tells the story of Walter White, a struggling high school chemistry teacher diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer who, together with a former student, turns to a life of crime, producing not cannabis but crystal meths to secure his family’s financial future.

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