Young mum sold over £100k worth of drugs after turning to dealing to pay off debt

dailyrecord.co.uk:

drugs to users has been jailed for three years. Mum Sophie Thompson, 24,smuggled the hard drugs into Gloucestershire over a two month period - and supplied a mix of heroin and crack cocaine to surrounding towns.

A court heard on June 21 how Thompson turned to dealing to pay off a £10,000 drug debt. Her driver, who denied all knowledge of her drug dealing and struck a chord of laughter in the court when he claimed he thought she was a nurse travelling to and from work, avoided jail time and was sentenced to a period of unpaid work.According to Birmingham Live, Gloucester Crown Court heard on December 8 2020 that police stopped a Mercedes travelling south after receiving information that it had been used for Class A drug supply in Birmingham..