A WOMAN who tried to smuggle heroin and cocaine into a Teesside prison was jailed for 30 months yesterday.

Security staff at Holme House Prison, in Stockton, caught Tracey McCorry trying to smuggle heroin, cocaine, ecstasy, and Class C heroin treatment drug subutex into the prison by hiding it in her bra.

The haul would have been worth about £1,165 in prison, where drugs are worth more than on the street.

Teesside Crown Court heard that McCorry admitted going to the prison to supply drugs to her partner.

Patricia Mancina, prosecuting, told the court that when security staff stopped McCorry and asked her if she had any drugs, she removed four packages from her bra.

She told staff they all contained subutex.

However, she was carrying 1.51 grams of heroin, 0.38 grams of cocaine, 0.2 grams of ecstasy and 21 and a half subutex tablets.

McCorry said she believed all the packages contained subutex and that she thought her partner would get half, while the rest would go to other inmates.

She told police she took packages into the prison on another occasion months earlier.

Duncan McReddie, in mitigation, asked the judge to take into account her early guilty plea and her full admission to police.

He said it was the first time she had appeared in court and that it showed McCorry knew the difference between right and wrong.

He said: "This woman has been enmeshed in an all-too-familiar cycle of addiction and poverty and further addiction, without resorting to crime to fund her habit."

McCorry, 38, of Skelton Court, Guisborough, pleaded guilty to three counts of possessing Class A drugs with intent to supply, and one count of possessing Class C drugs with intent to supply.