A woman who tried to smuggle a variety of illegal drugs into custody in her underwear has been locked up.

Karla Alice Marie Kearns was found to have drugs including heroin, cocaine and cannabis wrapped in clingfilm and hidden in four Kinder eggs which she kept in her bra.

She was jailed for a total of seven months at Caernarfon Crown Court.

Judge Huw Rees said he accepted this was a case of attempting to take drugs into custody and that they were for her own use.

He said: "I don't sentence you as a supplier, but the sentence is aggravated by your previous convictions and you were about to take these drugs to prison."

The judge heard the 34-year-old, of no fixed address but formerly of Llandudno , had gone to the police station at St Asaph in January last year after a warrant was issued for her arrest.

 

Officers later carried out a search and found a Kinder egg which contained bags of tobacco, some yellow powder and tablets wrapped in plastic.

The illegal drugs were found the following day when a further search was carried out.

Simon Rogers, prosecuting, said the drugs had a street value of £350.

He said Kearns told officers she assumed she would be remanded in custody and insisted the drugs were for her own use while in prison.

When she appeared in court last month, she admitted three charges of attempting to take controlled drugs into custody.

She also admitted possessing a quantity of Buprenorphine tablets, an illegal drug of Class C used to overcome drug dependence, and failing to surrender to her bail.

 

Sentence had been adjourned for the preparation of reports.

James Coutts, defending, said Kearns had a lengthy record of previous convictions but these were mostly theft and shoplifting to fund her drug addiction.

He asked the judge to impose a sentence that would allow her some hope for the future.

"There is a dawning realisation she has problems and there are those who can help but she also needs to help herself," he said.

The judge also ordered the illegal drugs to be forfeited and destroyed.