Woman, 50, admits cannabis possession and gets curfew at High Wycombe
Claire Vella, 50, of Sarratt in Hertfordshire, admitted possessing cannabis at High Wycombe Magistrates' Court alongside two driving offences. She forfeited the drugs, was given a curfew within a four-month community order and was ordered to pay £85.
🇬🇧 High Wycombe Magistrates' Court, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire · United Kingdom
Claire Vella, 50, of Ash Meadow Farm, Deadmans Ash Lane, Sarratt, Hertfordshire,
admitted possession of cannabis at High Wycombe Magistrates’ Court.[1]In the
same hearing she admitted driving a motor vehicle above the specified controlled
drug limit and driving while disqualified.[1]The round-up does not say that
the drug in the driving offence was cannabis.[1]
The court ordered the cannabis forfeited.[1]She was given a curfew as part of
a community order for a four-month period.[1]She was ordered to pay £85.[1]
The case was one of the most recent concluded at the magistrates’ court for High
Wycombe in Buckinghamshire, as summarised in a weekly round-up of drink and
drug-driving convictions.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
The round-up gives no date for the hearing; 5 November 2026 is the article's publication date and is used as the incident date.
The article's lede says the cases were concluded at "High Magistrates Court"; the report uses High Wycombe Magistrates' Court from the headline and from the court named for another case in the same round-up.
No weight or number of cannabis items was published, so no quantity can be recorded, and the report does not say whether the forfeited drugs were herbal cannabis or another product.
The £85 order is not broken down between the cannabis and driving matters, so it is recorded as a fine without stating what it covers.
The source says she was given a curfew as part of a "community order four-month period" and does not state the curfew hours or the full terms.
The driving offences are driving above the specified controlled drug limit and driving while disqualified; the round-up does not say the drug in the driving offence was cannabis.
Only one accessible account of this hearing was found after searching in English.
Other unrelated driving, insurance and theft cases in the same round-up are left out here.
Earlier Watford Observer listings name a Claire Vella of the same address in 2024 and 2025 hearings; those are different cases and are not included.
Callum Roper, 22, of Holton Road, Barry, was jailed for 30 months at Cardiff Crown Court after admitting offences involving the supply of cannabis and magic mushrooms. He pleaded guilty to being concerned in the supply of both drugs between 3 December 2025 and 14 September 2026 and had been remanded in custody awaiting sentence.
Bolton Crown Court sentenced seven members of three linked drug gangs that trafficked cocaine and cannabis between Manchester, Stoke-on-Trent and North Wales. Five men received prison sentences of up to eleven and a half years, while two couriers received community orders and two leaders await later sentencing.
Daniel Thompson, 36, was found with 8,223.6 grams of cannabis resin, valued at up to £35,950, when officers searched a house on Moss Side Lane in Rixton in July 2023. Chester Crown Court gave him a nine-month prison sentence suspended for 12 months and 100 hours of unpaid work after he admitted possessing the resin with intent to supply and possessing cocaine.
Sentenced 1Cannabis 8.2236 kgPrison 9 months suspended for 12 months
Bradford Crown Court jailed Alfie Leahy, 21, for five years and Connor Broadbent, 26, for three years and four months over drugs found when police raided two homes in the Holmewood area at dawn on 17 July 2026. Cannabis was seized at a Grayswood Crescent address and cocaine, cash and jewellery at Dawson Street; police put the total street value of the drugs at more than £22,000.
Charged 2Prison 5 years (Leahy); 3 years and 4 months (Broadbent)
