Gran caged for ten months for smuggling crack cocaine into prison in her MOUTH and trying to pass it to lag with a kiss
The gran admitted possession with intent to supply at Warrington crown court
A GRAN has been jailed for 10 months for smuggling crack cocaine into a men's prison in her mouth - and trying to hand it over with a KISS.
Janet Shaw, 56, concealed the drugs in her underwear, before putting it into mouth to Cat-C HMP Risley, in Warrington, Cheshire, in July 2015.
But she was pulled aside by suspicious prison officers who spotted she was trying to interact with other visitors - without opening her mouth.
Warrington Crown Court heard an oral search later uncovered she had tried to hide two grams of crack cocaine.
Now Shaw, of Glossop in Derbyshire, has been jailed for 10 months after admitting possession with intent to supply Class A drugs.
Prosecutor James Coutts said: "She was interviewed and stated she had been asked by (a prisoner called) Walker and would be paid £200 for doing it.
"The defendant had carried the drugs in her underwear before moving it to her mouth.
"She also described her intention to pass it to him via a kiss."
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Shaw, who has no previous convictions and also works in a cancer hospice, would not tell the officers where the drugs came from and claimed she believed the substance to be a legal high.
During Monday's hearing, Shaw's defence team argued that she was in a vulnerable place due to family issues at the time of the offence.
Her lawyer Rachel White said: "While she knows he was in custody she had no idea the length and breadth of his previous convictions.
"He sought to persuade, bully and coerce and as part of that he did say he would pay her.
"But she readily accepts how being in custody there was no realistic way he could pay."
Judge Simon Medland QC stressed he would not be doing his job if he did not order an immediate custodial sentence.
The judge stressed it was his responsibility to see a sentence act as a deterrent to those who try to disrupt the "organisation and ordinance of the prison regime."