A Belgian court has sentenced two 73-year-old grandparents to two-year suspended jail terms this week after they were convicted of dealing in heroin and other drugs, the tribunal said today.
The elderly pensioners had taken over the business of their grandson, who himself had been imprisoned for selling heroin, cocaine and ecstasy.
The court established that the couple had sold a variety of drugs to people, including one minor, who dropped by their apartment near the northern town of Aalst. Some even came by to make large orders, the court said.
"The only thing that counted for them was to continue the profitable drug dealing business of their grandson," the judges wrote in their ruling yesterday.
The couple, who had no prior criminal record, were also ordered to pay fines of €1,000 each.