Chemistry teacher turns her house into a drugs factory!

TEACHER'S SURE GOT GUTS!

A chemistry teacher who was struggling to pay her mortgage transformed her home into a  drugs factory in a case mirroring the hit TV series Breaking Bad. Susan McKay, 58, turned her plush seven-bedroom home into a cannabis farm producing drugs with a street value of up to £100,000. But her hi-tech drugs operation was rumbled and she was hauled before the courts where she narrowly escaped a jail sentence.

Last week McKay was banned from teaching after a professional standards panel ruled she was not fit to teach children. At an earlier hearing a court was told the respected teacher had hit upon the idea after suffering a series of devastating personal tragedies. Struggling to pay the mortgage on the seven-bedroom B&B operation she also ran, she hit upon an idea to produce cannabis and sell it on. McKay, a teacher at Ysgol Clywedog in Wrexham, told the court she had also embarked on a life of crime due to money worries.  The teacher, from Llandyrnog, near Denbigh, was handed a suspended sentence at Mold Crown Court earlier this year after she pleaded guilty to conspiring to supply cannabis from the B&B business she rain with her husband. Her son Michael McKay, 27, an Olympic boxing prospect, pleaded guilty to the same charge. Her husband also admitted conspiracy but on the basis he turned a blind eye to what others were doing and that he had no financial benefit from it.