A WOMAN could be jailed for letting her husband set up a cannabis factory at their home.

Police raided Michael and Jean Osborne’s home and found 120 plants with a potential yield of £54,000 in a caravan.

Osborne, 56, claimed she only found out about the makeshift factory, complete with lights and a watering system, four months before the police raid.

She denied allowing premises to be used to grow cannabis but was convicted after a Chelmsford Crown Court trial. The jury's verdict was unanimous.

She will be sentenced with her husband once reports are prepared. He admitted growing cannabis at an earlier hearing.

Judge David Turner QC told the court all sentence options were open - including prison.

The trial heard police armed with a search warrant went to the house at Rivers End in Coggeshall Road, Bradwell on January 21 this year.

A caravan had been converted into a cannabis factory.

As well as the plants, bags of cannabis were also found along with £900 in cash.

Osborne was arrested and told police the factory was nothing to do with her.

She told the jury: “I did not want it to happen. I said it was wrong.

"I was ashamed, I did not want to tell my children. They found out after the police came.”

Osborne claimed she had argued with her husband about the factory.

She said: "The discussion continued for quite a few weeks.

“I think he was under pressure from other people. I did try to stop it. It nearly broke our marriage up because he lied to me for over a year.”

She told the jury her husband did not hand over any money to her, she never went near the caravan and never helped her husband.

Osborne said she was unable to smell the drug as she has no sense of smell following an operation.

She was bailed until sentencing next month.