AN unemployed teenager who was setting up her own business with help from the Prince's Trust was jailed yesterday for drug dealing.

Rebecca Diane Lee, 19, from North Ormesby, had an approved business plan and was looking for shop premises in nearby Middlesbrough.

But she was arrested by police with a warrant to search her home on November 19.

She was caught with ten cling-film wraps of cannabis resin in a pocket of her jeans and more of the drug in her handbag, said Sayed Merali, prosecuting.

Lee claimed that the drug, worth £120, was for her own use.

However, last month a Teesside Crown Court jury convicted her of possession with intent to supply.

Helen Gamble, defending, said that Lee impressed as someone who wanted to make something of her life, according to a probation officer's report.

She said: "She is intent on setting up her own business and she has an approved business plan. She is looking for a shop in Middlesbrough when she can go to the Prince's Trust for start-up funds."

Judge George Moorhouse ordered the confiscation and destruction of the drugs seized from Lee, of Magdalen Street.

She was sent to a young offender's institution for nine months.