Clayton-le-Moors cocaine dealer with stun gun jailed (From Blackburn Citizen)

Clayton-le-Moors cocaine dealer with stun gun jailed

8:20pm Saturday 21st November 2009

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A COCAINE dealer found with a near £5,000 stash of drugs and a fully working stun gun at her Clayton-le-Moors home has been jailed for four years and three months.

Chronic addict Katherine Jarrett, 25, kept a cocaine press in her garden shed which was used to make small blocks of the drug with a cutting agent.

Cocaine was found in her bedroom and the kitchen at the property where Jarrett lived with her partner and her partner's two children aged 13 and seven.

She later admitted she had been supplying in deals worth £100 a time, Burnley Crown Court heard.

Jarrett, who has already served a 42 month prison term for possessing ecstasy with intent to supply, imposed in March 2005, had admitted being concerned in the supply of cocaine between March 1 and June 13, supplying it between the same dates, possessing the drug and possessing the stun gun.

She was also in breach of a suspended sentence for affray.

She will not face a proceeds of crime hearing but if she commits another drugs supply offence she will be given a mandatory seven year sentence.

Sarah Statham, prosecuting, said police searched the defendant's home in Whalley Road, Clayton-le-Moors, on June 12 and found a large quantity of cocaine.

The defendant was arrested and questioned by police and said she had been supplying to family and friends in £100 quantities to fund her addiction.

The prosecutor told the court: "She said she loved cocaine, had had a considerable addiction for some time and in fact would do anything to fund that addiction."

The defendant had 12 previous convictions, many of them drug-related.

Defending Jarrett, Martin Hackett said she might have made a small amount of money out of dealing but was not living the high life.

He said: "She was not dealing in a sophisticated manner and she had the press in her shed which was easily found by the police."

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