A Workington grandmother found with heroin at her home on three separate dates, has been jailed for 32 months.
Police first executed a warrant at Dawn Hilland’s Roper Street home on January 13 2019.
They seized heroin potentially worth more than £3,500, digital weighing scales and a phone containing messages indicative of drug supply.
A “concoction of adulterants” commonly cut with heroin was found in the kitchen, Carlisle Crown Court was told.
Hilland, a 55-year-old crippled for the last two decades by drug addiction, was released under investigation.
But on October 31 that year, police were back with another warrant and made similar seizures.
These included almost £2,000-worth of the class A drug, a phone bearing more damning messages, cash and scales containing traces of heroin, cocaine, ketamine and cannabis.
Released again by police, she was back in trouble on January 7, 2020, when officers went to her home.
They recovered a package of heroin between two pairs of trousers she was wearing, and cash secreted in a Wellington boot.
Hilland admitted two counts of heroin with intent to supply, and one of heroin possession.
She spoke of housing drugs found on the first two dates for others further up the criminal chain after her husband was jailed, and confessed she would supply to close friends if requested.
Kim Whittlestone, defending, said Hilland, a mother and grandmother, had spoken of being as “low” as she possibly could be in terms of her mental and physical health, and her outlook, and of having had “enough”.
Passing sentence at Carlisle Crown Court this afternoon, Recorder Richard Archer heard she also had a previous heroin supply conviction on her criminal record.
“Yours are a particularly tragic set of circumstances,” said Recorder Archer. “It seems in your case that misery has been heaped upon misery.”
