Drug dealer stashed cash in bra

The pair were jailed for three years at the High Court in Edinburgh

A former prostitute has been jailed for three years for drug dealing after she was found with cash hidden in her bra.

Yvonne Dickie, 27, of King Street, Dumfries, was detained by police who had a search warrant for her house.

She was taken to a police station and a search found £220 in her bra. She admitted she had been supplying tenner bags of heroin over several weeks.

Co-accused Mark Lennan, 30, who also admitted supplying the drug, was also jailed for three years.

Unemployed Dickie had previously admitted being concerned in the supply of the Class A drug between 23 July and 30 August last year.

She is a compliant, vulnerable individual who set out to appease her co-accused Richard Goddard Solicitor advocate

Lennan admitted the same offence between 15 July and 30 August.

The High Court in Edinburgh heard that police received intelligence that they were involved in the supply of the drug in the Dumfries area.

Information suggested that the dealing took place outside Dumfries Ice Bowl, at the rear of a pharmacist's shop and at a car park at Farmfoods in the town's Glasgow Road.

Two men were seen approaching the flats where the unemployed pair lived in King Street on 30 August.

Police saw one of them injecting heroin after leaving the flats.

Lennan was detained later that day in the street by police and was found to have £146 in cash.

Police were told drug deals were going on outside the Ice Bowl

He later admitted supplying about 12 tenner bags of the drug daily in the Dumfries area to fund his own drug habit.

Richard Goddard, solicitor advocate for Dickie, said she had suffered "dreadful experiences" as a teenager.

She began abusing drugs and taking part in other self-destructive behaviour and endured homelessness and prostitution.

Mr Goddard told the court: "She is a compliant, vulnerable individual who set out to appease her co-accused."

Solicitor advocate Brian Gilfedder, for Lennan, said his client was involved to feed his own habit.

He is now on a methadone reduction programme.

Lord Brodie told Dickie that it was a serious offence and there was no alternative to imprisonment.

The judge said she would have faced a four-year sentence but for her guilty plea.