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Nicola Austens has been given nine months in jail, suspended for a year after she admitted in court to having bought cocaine as a birthday gift for her daughter. The 37-year-old was arrested after nearly 6g of cocaine was found at her home in Southborough, near Tunbridge Wells, Kent.

She told cops that she had planned to snort the drug with her daughter after hiring a limo to take them on a night out in London as they celebrated the girl's 18th birthday. Maidstone Crown Court was told how Austen wanted to make sure she and her daughter would “have a good time”, Austen had booked a limousine and planned to take the stash with her to surprise her daughter on her 18th birthday.

Craig Evans, prosecuting, told the court: "They were going to London in a limousine and she wanted to make sure they had a good time." He said that the drugs, which were hidden in her bedroom, were found by a police sniffer dog and that the drugs were found in 12 wraps, weighing a total of 5.65g.

The mother,  Austen, was said to have six previous convictions in the past, she was convicted for possessing amphetamine in 2010. She said it was a “great shame” that she found herself before the court. The defending counsel said: "It is to her great shame she finds herself in court, she appeared to have left this sort of thing behind."

The Court Recorder, Matthew McDonagh said: "The basis of your plea was that the drugs were to be consumed by yourself and your daughter and had been purchased to celebrate her birthday on a trip to London. They were to be consumed over the course of the weekend." Austen was handed nine months in jail, suspended for a year and ordered to complete 250 hours of unpaid work.

In another news, A Saudi man instantly divorced his wife after catching her dancing in front of the TV at their home. The unnamed woman had waited for her husband to go out before she turned on her favourite TV music channel and started to dance in front of the TV set in her room.

Her husband had warned her against watching such channels, but she went behind his back and ciphered some of them so he would not know she was watching them.

The woman said her husband had warned her many times against watching such channels and that she must see only religious and social channels which he likes to watch.

"She said that she waited for him to go out on that day, turned on her favorite channel and started to dance. As she was dancing, her husband returned home but she did not hear him coming as the music was loud. She said that when he saw her dancing, he immediately divorced her despite her pleas. She said he told her that what she did was an unforgivable marital betrayal and that she violated his instructions,” the paper added.

Her husband went on to say what she did was unforgivable.