Prison drugs mule woman is jailed

A drugs mule who posed as a solicitor to smuggle drugs into prisons has been jailed for six-and-a-half years.

Lisa Jennings, 35, of Woodhouse Square, Ipswich, Suffolk, used headed notepaper from law firms to gain access to at least four prisons, including Norwich.

Jennings who admitted possessing heroin, cocaine and cannabis with intent to supply claimed she was forced to become a smuggler by her boyfriend.

Her partner Paul Dwyer is serving a life sentence for murder.

Identity stolen

But Judge Timothy Pontius at the Old Bailey rejected her defence of duress an earlier hearing.

Sentencing Jennings on Friday, he told her she was "an impressionable woman who seems drawn to a particular type of man" and was "under Paul Dwyer's spell".

But he added: "You acted willingly in compliance with his demands and the serious aspect of this case is the number of times you did so."

Jennings also admitted perverting the course of justice by giving a woman friend's name when she was arrested in 2002 and then jumped bail.

The jails included Gartree in Leicestershire, Norwich in Norfolk, Strangeways in Manchester and Wormwood Scrubs, west London.