'Tough-love mother sends drugs son to prison over £10,000 ecstasy haul'

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A mother who made the 'heartbreaking' decision to shop her own son to police after he became involved with hard drugs said today she believes she has done the right thing.

Susan Gale described the turmoil that resulted from her decision, but spoke out to warn other parents of the importance of 'tough love'.

She said her ex-public schoolboy son is now serving an 18-month jail sentence after pleading guilty last month to possessing class A drugs with intent to supply.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...nds-drugs-son-prison-10-000-ecstasy-haul.html


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From the article- "Drugs are evil and destroy people and I don't want that to happen to my son.

'I'm hoping that the experience of going to prison will be the turning point in his life. That's the whole reason I did it.'

She added her son had taken up a bricklaying course at the prison."

This lady is a first class idiot. What about alcohol? Is it evil?
 
She is right, it will be a turning point in his life. He will no longer to be gainfully employed anywhere or get into college even if he stops using drugs. Well he might be able to get a job or get into college, but his chances have been SEVERELY reduced.
 
^^Basically now she can be assured her son will be selling drugs, or living at home on the off chance he can get a job as a felon it wont be a good one.
 
Wonderful so he can learn to be a better criminal and be bitter at society.
 
full article:

Family at war after 'tough love' mother shops her drug-dealing son

By Lucy Ballinger, Vanessa Allen and Nick Mcdermott
Last updated at 1:22 AM on 15th April

A mother who made the 'heartbreaking' decision to shop her own son to police after he became involved with hard drugs said yesterday she believes she has done the right thing.

Oliver Perver-Gale, a 22-year-old former public schoolboy, has cut ties with his mother and has refused to see her in prison.

But Susan Gale, 57, said: 'I'm hoping that the experience of going to prison will be the turning point in his life.'

Her younger son Jonathan is said to be furious that she has spoken publicly about her agonising decision and that the family has appeared in the newspapers.

A friend said: 'He was so angry when he woke up to find his family on the front page of a newspaper. He shouted at her, "You have brought shame on the family".'

Perver-Gale began 'dabbling' with cannabis at the age of 14, when he was a boarder at £25,000-a-year St Bede's in Hailsham, Sussex, said his mother.

She decided she needed to get the police involved last April after finding a 'wrap' of brown powder on the kitchen table at her home in Lindfield, near Haywards Heath, Sussex.

Officers later searched her son's car and found Ecstasy, worth almost £10,000 in the boot.

Mrs Gale said she wanted to urge parents to adopt her own 'tough love' stance.

And last night her brother, a consultant cardiologist, backed her.

Dr Charles Ilsley said: 'My sister is awfully brave to do what she did, and I'm not sure I would have done the same in her position, but I honestly believe it was the right thing.

'As a doctor I have had first-hand experience of the consequences of drug abuse and anyone who deals with them should be prepared to face the consequences.'

But another close family member, who did not want to be named, said she believed Oliver would never forgive his mother.

She added: 'Poor Oliver. He deserves to be in prison, but he doesn't deserve his mother shouting about it to the world.

'It will be hurting him dreadfully. He may never speak to her again.'

The relative claimed Mrs Gale was envious of her eldest son's relationship with the boys' father, from whom she had split when the brothers were just four and two.

Her ex-partner, property developer John Perver, had paid for their sons' private schooling. Perver-Gale chose to live with his father when he reached his teens.

The relative added: 'Susan is so spiteful. If he was my son I would want to keep it quiet to protect him and help him when he comes out of prison.

'She just wants to be the centre of attention. It makes me so angry.'

Perver-Gale pleaded guilty to possessing Class A drugs with intent to supply last month and is now serving an 18-month sentence in the category C Camp Hill Prison on the Isle of Wight.

He has refused to see his mother, speak to her or answer any of her letters.

She has been forced to rely on the prison chaplain for updates on how he is coping.

Mr Perver was last night understood to be visiting his son and was unavailable for comment.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...tough-love-mother-shops-drug-dealing-son.html
 
His only crime was to be born to a lame-brained mother. Then his uncle says 'As a doctor I have had first-hand experience of the consequences of drug abuse and anyone who deals with them should be prepared to face the consequences.'

Excuse me? Going to prison is a consequence of drug abuse? No! Going to prison is a consequence of misguided arrogant people imposing their version of morality on other people.
 
What an awful parent, not to mention an attention whore. Poor kid. I mean we all accept the risk we take when we use illicit drugs, but to be sold out by your own mother? That's low. Especially when it sounds like it was motivated by spite as much as parental concern.

Hopefully his life isn't fucked up too bad and he manages to make something of himself, instead of being forced back into crime.
 
Stupid slut! And to run around talking to the media about it, how is that helping her son? This bitch just wanted to be in the papers, and its fucking ecstasy not addictive drugs, not that it would be anymore justified if it was heroin but you have to laugh at her and the doctors comments about "drugs".
 
wow what a spiteful cunt, I'm sure THIS will win you your sons affection over your ex

I hope she gets throwin in the can for a DUI or something in the near future and the media jumps on it. That's such an evil stupid thing to do, she just destroyed any chance he had at making a decent life for himself =(
 
Huaca said:
Going to prison is a consequence of misguided arrogant people imposing their version of morality on other people.
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Absolutely true. (In this case, at least - for murderers and rapists, I would disagree with the misguided part.)

However, I noticed that nobody here appeared to try and understand the situation from the mother's perspective. If we assume that drugs are evil and ruin people's lives, she may have made the best decision that she could. As a parent, I am sure that she suffered over it. I doubt that she did it for the fame. I guess/hope that it hurt her deeply, and that she agonized over her decision before making it.

The real problem is with the laws and propaganda that teach people like her that drugs are evil and ruin people's lives. Let's put the blame on the insane drug laws and the ignorance purposely propagated by those in power. The lies in the media, the lies in "drug education" classes, the laws that make innocent people go to prison for exploring their own consciousness with any substance other than alcohol, caffeine, and nicotine.

MDMA has the potential to be an incredibly healing chemical, a lifechanging chemical that can save people's psychology or spirits. The mother doesn't know that. It also has the potential to harm or kill people (though much much less frequently). She only knows about this part of the story. I believe that we should forget about trying to blame her, and focus on blaming society for the lies and the laws.

We need to legalize drugs NOW!
 
^ Gotta disagree, I think if she wasn't selling her sons life for a headline she would of avoided the media for starters. Second, regardless of her view on drugs she claimed it would somehow benefit her son, not the many people he would of sold the drugs to so the peercieved danger of drugs is basically irrelevant.
 
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