{"id":429407,"date":"2025-09-16T17:30:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T17:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/429407\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T17:30:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T17:30:17","slug":"merseyside-care-home-worker-involved-in-drugs-supply-said-shed-make-a-killing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/429407\/","title":{"rendered":"Merseyside care home worker involved in drugs supply said she’d ‘make a killing’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Morgan Quigley “felt she couldn’t say no” to drug-dealing manager and predator Lindy Leah<\/p>\n

17:59, 16 Sep 2025Updated 18:00, 16 Sep 2025<\/p>\n

\"MorganMorgan Quigley outside Liverpool crown court(Image: Liverpool Echo)<\/p>\n

A care worker at a children’s home where predator Lindy Leah <\/a>groomed a teenage boy was involved in the supply of ketamine. Morgan Quigley, 29, was in cahoots with convicted sex offender Leah, who was her superior at the St Helens<\/a> home where they both worked.<\/p>\n

The two women were both found to be involved in the supply of class B drugs after Leah’s phone was seized by police and incriminating text messages were discovered. At around 2.45pm on March 13 last year, Leah messaged Quigley to ask: “Why haven’t you sold my ket?”<\/p>\n

Quigley replied: “Ha ha you know what, I forgot about that.” Leah then messaged: “Lazy you.”<\/p>\n

Leah, of Capesthorne Road in Orford, Warrington<\/a>, appeared at Liverpool Crown Court yesterday, September 15, after being found guilty<\/a> of being a person in a position of trust causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity. She also pleaded guilty to two<\/a> counts of being concerned in the supply of class B drugs (ketamine and cannabis resin).<\/p>\n

The 44-year-old mum was accused of preying on a teenage boy in her care while wearing inappropriate and revealing outfits in his presence. A series of WhatsApp messages, meanwhile, showed her apparently asking him \u201cfor a love bite\u201d and encouraging him to go missing so they could enjoy a drug-fuelled \u201cnight away\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Quigley, of Cooperage Close, Brunswick, appeared in court today, September 16. She pleaded guilty to being concerned in the supply of class B drugs (ketamine).<\/p>\n

Prosecutor Graham Pickavance said: “On March 13 last year, she was concerned in the supply of class B ketamine. The background is she was working at the same care home as Lindy Leah who was dealt with yesterday.<\/p>\n

“Evidence was given (that) she had actually come to the care home under the influence of drugs and had to be sent home on one occasion.”<\/p>\n

Further text messages sent between the two women showed Leah suggesting they go into business together with Quigley responding: “We would make a killing.”<\/p>\n

Peter Killen, defending, said Quigley had played a lesser role in the offending. He said: “The lesser role properly reflects not only the actions of Quigley but also her position as an employee of the co-defendant (Leah) who was her supervisor and manager.<\/p>\n

“My client has reflected she fell into a pattern of behaviour she is remorseful about now. She felt she couldn’t say no. She knows that was an unhealthy relationship for her. It’s not without significance that the pre-sentence report assess her as a vulnerable adult.”<\/p>\n

He said Quigley suffered from anxiety as a result of bullying at school and this had worsened due to the long delay in bringing the case to court. He said: “She’s suitable for a mental health treatment requirement and that would be very much to her advantage and reduce her likelihood of ever coming before these courts again. She’s described as a low risk of reoffending.”<\/p>\n

He added: “This misconduct led to her dismissal from her employment, led to the loss of her career as a carer which she was hoping to follow as a team leader which was a promotion that had been offered to her by the co-defendant (Leah).<\/p>\n

“She was hoping to be able to travel to Australia and she knows that’s now not going to happen. So she has lost a career in the UK and her ambitions to travel and work elsewhere.<\/p>\n

“My client is also the main carer for her grandfather. He’s in relatively poor health, in his 80s. She is his registered carer and obviously there’s a concern that there’s effectively no one else to assist him if she were incarcerated immediately.”<\/p>\n

Sentencing, judge Brian Cummings said: “This is not a case for custody. There are no aggravating factors. There are a number of important mitigating factors. You’re 29 and you have no previous convictions.<\/p>\n

“I accept you have shown remorse, I accept the pre-sentence report regarding your mental health, and the effect of the delay in this case on your mental health. I accept that, irrespective of anything the court does, there have already been adverse consequences for you.”<\/p>\n

He sentenced Quigley to a 12 month community order, 20 rehabilitation days, and a 12 month mental health treatment requirement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Morgan Quigley “felt she couldn’t say no” to drug-dealing manager and predator Lindy Leah 17:59, 16 Sep 2025Updated…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429408,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[748,30,188,393,4884,179,2645,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-429407","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-courts","10":"tag-crime","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-liverpool","14":"tag-st-helens","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115215166504601986","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}