Mum who used baby to smuggle drugs avoids jail
Published Date:
22 November 2008
A MOTHER who smuggled drugs into Saughton Prison in her baby's hood has avoided jail.
Linda Restorick, 37, was told at Edinburgh Sheriff Court that she only avoided a jail term because of her family responsibilities.
Sheriff Frank Crowe imposed a restriction of liberty order, confining her to her home between 8pm and 7am for six months.
Restorick, of Duddingston Mills, Edinburgh, had pleaded guilty previously to being concerned in the supply of herbal cannabis and heroin on March 24 this year at Saughton Prison.
During visiting time that day, officers became convinced there was something hidden in the hood of a baby, sitting on an inmate's knee.
Fiscal depute Malcolm Stewart said Restorick was the baby's mother and the inmate had been her partner at the time. She admitted to the police that she had put the drugs into the baby's hood.
Mr Stewart said the street value of the heroin was about £130, but in prison it would be worth £390. The cannabis had a street value of £14, but £40 in prison.
The full article contains 184 words and appears in Edinburgh Evening News newspaper.
-
Last Updated:
22 November 2008 11:03 AM
-
Source:
Edinburgh Evening News
-
Location:
Edinburgh
-
Related Topics:
Scottish prisons
