Paul Brierley was jailed for 18 months after he pleaded guilty to two charges of possession of Class C drugs with intent to supply them

Paul Brierley, 23, told police that he would hand the baby to the prisoner he was visiting in Holme House Prison, Stockton, and at the same time he passed across drugs.Prison staff grabbed him after receiving information about the visits when he was accompanied by the baby’s mother, the prisoner’s partner, said prosecutor Kristian Mills.
Brierley was searched and he was caught with herbal cannabis and Subutex tablets.
When police interviewed him he said that he had done it a few times before and he had been paid £30 for each delivery, Teesside Crown Court was told.Mr Mills added: “The method of getting the drugs in was that they would have been passed over with the baby.”Ruth Phillips, defending, said: “He has been more than candid and he has made the situation worse for himself by doing so.”She said that when Brierley was nine his father was murdered and he had spent years in and out of local authority care.
He became involved with undesirables who were heavily involved in the drugs scene and pressure was brought on him to smuggle drugs into prison.
On occasions when he refused he was threatened with reprisals.
Judge Les Spittle told Brierley: “Although I am not sentencing you for it I have to take into account that this was not the first time, and you have been doing it for money.
“What you were doing and you admitted it to police was that you were knowingly taking drugs into prison. Whatever pressure may have been upon you it seems you were doing it for money.”
Brierley, of Bolckow Road, Grangetown, was jailed for 18 months after he pleaded guilty to two charges of possession of Class C drugs with intent to supply them on July 17 last year.