Woman put drugs in bra to take into jail
A woman who stuffed drugs in her bra to smuggle through prison security to her inmate boyfriend after the pair staged a bogus car-jacking was today also behind bars.
Stacey Martin was found with £700 worth of heroin inside her bra two days after she hid a wrap of skunk cannabis in a packet of crisps in bushes outside HMP Ranby in Nottinghamshire, where her boyfriend Andrew Warley is a prisoner. She had planned that her boyfriend's fellow inmate would collect the 37-gram stash during his litter-picking rounds.
The 32-year-old, of Muchall Road, Penn, near Wolverhampton, was jailed for two years after admitting two counts of conspiracy to supply drugs and conspiracy to commit fraud at Wolverhampton Crown Court.
Her boyfriend Andrew Warley, 37, admitted the same three counts along with a further charge of perverting the course of justice by attempting to concoct an alibi for Martin.
Warley, who was already serving a sentence for unrelated driving matters, was handed a further four-and-a-half years behind bars at the hearing, on Friday.
The court heard that on March 26 last year, Martin pulled into a petrol station off Birmingham New Road, Coseley, in a £40,000 BMW.
Two men rushed at her, snatched the keys away and sped off in the car – but the whole robbery had been staged in a bid to claim the insurance payout.
Just days after, on April 5, Martin arrived at HMP Ranby with a male accomplice, who put the drug-filled crisp packet under a tree. The next day, an inmate on litter duty headed straight to the tree and picked up the packet, before trying to get back into the prison. He was arrested at the entrance.
And two days afterwards, Martin was stopped by traffic officers and after being taken to a police station for questioning admitted she had heroin in her bra.
A total of £2,000 in cash was also discovered in her handbag.
