A Bradford mother has been cleared of allowing drugs to be stashed in her house as part of a million-pound conspiracy.

Rebecca Eley, 27, was found not guilty yesterday of being involved in a conspiracy to supply drugs, after a four-day trial at Bradford Crown Court. She had been accused of allowing dealers to keep heroin and cocaine with a street value of £420,440 in her loft between December 20 and 24, 2009. The stash was alleged to be part of a larger conspiracy, to which other people have already pleaded guilty.

During the trial it was said the drugs had been moved from another safe house to Miss Eley’s house in Melba Road, Canterbury, after one of the conspirators was arrested following a drug deal.

Police recovered the drugs from Miss Eley’s loft after watching activity around the other conspirators and around her house.

She denied ever having been aware the drugs were in her loft but said a friend, whom she called Barry, had been at her home, “acting a bit suspicious”.

She said at one stage he and another man had been upstairs in her house while she remained downstairs, but she did not know what they had been doing. When police arrived at her house she asked them if they were there for her friend and said she knew he had been doing “something dodgy” while he was there.