A WOMAN was caught with a stash of drugs on her admission to prison following conviction for supplying heroin.

Stacey Sherwood, 35, was found ‘guilty’ of dealing the class A drug, following a trial at Teesside Crown Court, in February.

She was said to have sold three £25 packs of heroin from the window of her Mini, with her two young children sitting in rear seats, in a supermarket car park at Skelton, east Cleveland, in April last year.

Sentence was adjourned until last month, but she was remanded in custody in the intervening period.

Shortly after arriving at Low Newton Women’s Prison, in Durham, on February 7, she was found in possession of 14g of heroin, plus 36 tablets of three different class C drugs.

Despite still protesting her innocence of the supermarket car park dealing offence, she was jailed for three-and-a-half years on her return to Teesside Crown Court for sentence, on March 30.

Weeks into that sentence, Sherwood appeared at Durham Crown Court via video link from Low Newton Prison, today (Tuesday April 21).

She was charged with a single count of bringing prohibited articles into prison, relating to the drugs found on her admission to Low Newton.

Thirty-five-year-old Sherwood, of Holmbeck Road, Skelton, pleaded guilty, on the basis that the drugs were for her own consumption.

Judge Christopher Prince said he wanted to consider sentencing authorities for such offences before passing sentence in this case.

He adjourned sentence until Friday, May 1 and remanded Sherwood back to custody in the meantime.