Drugs courier locked away

Drugs courier Amanda Watling locked away

7:59am Monday 9th July 2012 in News By Megi Rychlikova, megi.rychlikova@thepress.co.uk

A COCAINE courier who was caught red-handed with drugs worth more than 1,300 has been jailed for almost two years.

Amanda Watling was spotted by CCTV operators stumbling near a car in Toft Green, York, who raised the alarm, suspecting she was about to try and drive the car.

Paul Nicholson, prosecuting, told York Crown Court that Watling became aggressive when she saw the police officers and struggled with them.

Police searched the car and found 43.2g of cocaine inside, worth between 1,260 and 1,680, and 15 worth of amphetamine. They also found 57 Ecstasy tablets on her, worth 140 to 171, and amphetamine worth 120 to 140 in her house.

It was the second time she had been caught passing on Class A drugs. In 2007, she was jailed for 30 months at Nottingham Crown Court for supplying a prisoner with heroin.

She had been persuaded to take the cocaine from one part of York to another by her dealer, said her barrister Taryn Turner.

The Recorder of York, Judge Stephen Ashurst, told Watling: You did go in to this with open eyes and the benefit for you was you would continue to get your supplies from this person. If you were to be convicted in the future of another offence of supplying drugs or possession with intent, the court will have a duty to pass a minimum sentence of seven years in prison.

Watling, 31, of Runswick House, Birch Close, New Earswick, pleaded guilty to possessing cocaine with intent to supply it to another person and possessing amphetamine and Ecstasy for her own use. She was jailed for 21 months.

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