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Crystal-meth maker Stuart Gyger marries youth worker

Dec 13 2009 Sunday Sun

Convicted crystal meth maker Stuart Gyger

A CONVICTED crystal-meth maker is out of jail and has married a youth worker who helps keep tearaways on the straight and narrow.

Stuart Gyger was locked behind bars for four years back in April 2008 after turning his flash flat into a DIY drug factory.

He was nabbed making the highly-addictive drug, nicknamed “ice”, at his home in Fish Quay, near the mouth of the Tyne, where flats fetch as much as £200,000.

Now, after having time to repent his ways, love-struck Gyger yesterday married girlfriend Joanne Teague who steers unruly youngsters away from crime with North Tyneside’s Youth Offending Team.

Gyger has come a long way since his flat was raided.

At first police suspected they may have uncovered a bomb plot in February 2007 when they discovered he was stockpiling potentially lethal chemicals.

But he had turned the kitchen of the ground floor property into a lab to make crystal-meth – a drug never previously found in the North East.

Yesterday Stuart, 39, told the Sunday Sun how he was aware that people’s tongues were wagging over their marriage.

At his new home he shares with Joanne in North Shields, he said: “I am now out on licence after I was released early after appealing against my sentence.

“Everything was taken out of all proportion. I made a small amount of the stuff and that was it.

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