A woman was arrested for heroin dealing when police turned up to her house after a man died there.
The dead man - who had taken heroin - was found at the home of Tracey Bowles in Balmoral Road, in Rhyl .
She said she’d spent the day with the man, they’d bought two bags of heroin and took it that night.
It is believed the man died of a heart attack, and 50-year-old Bowles wasn’t in any way connected to his death.
The heroin found at her home was of a high purity - around 60% - and would have had a street value of around £1,300.
Analysis of her phone found she’d been dealing drugs over a two week period before the arrest.
“You were supplying a drug to which you were clearly addicted,” said Judge Recorder Gaynor Lloyd.
“On any view you are quite a vulnerable person who may well have been exploited.”
The judge said that it was a particularly sad case but custody was inevitable.
Interviewed, she told how a man who had been violent to her in the past had been using her home to deal drugs.
She had previous convictions for 60 offences and while she had convictions for possessing drugs, she had no previous convictions for supply offences.
Defence barrister Simon Rogers said that his client’s criminal record was typical of someone who was addicted to drugs.
She was extremely vulnerable and she had been used.
A medical report showed that she had been hospitalised with injuries consistent with an assault, and she said she had been assaulted by people who were worried about what she might do or say.
He said that there was no reason that the death of the man at her home should affect any sentence she would receive for the offences that she had admitted.
Judge Lloyd agreed, and jailed her for two and a half years.
See- http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/rhyl-woman-jailed-heroin-offences-10470994
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