A WOMAN admitted trying to pass a number of drugs to an inmate during a visit to a top security prison.
Gemma Rose Pugh was caught trying to smuggle heroin, cannabis resin and herbal cannabis to a prisoner at Frankland Jail, on the outskirts of Durham, while visiting last November.
She appeared at Durham Crown Court yesterday and pleaded guilty to three charges of supplying drugs.
Sentence was adjourned pending preparation of reports by the probation service on 22-year-old Pugh, who is of previous good character.
Placing her on bail, to live in the interim at her mother's home in Whalley Range, Manchester, Judge John Walford warned Pugh that she would be facing an "almost inevitable" prison sentence.
A condition of her bail was that she would not visit any penal institution.
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