Woman jailed for three years after smuggling drugs into prison

April Paget (31), formerly of Scarsdale Road, Rotherham, was stopped by prison officers at HMP Doncaster when she was visiting an inmate on Friday, October 12.

When she was searched, a wrapped package ended up falling out of her trousers. The contents were tested and found to contain cocaine and heroin.

Paget (pictured) was jailed for three years at Sheffield Crown Court on Wednesday, December 19. 

Speaking after the sentencing, Det Con Karl Turton, of the North East Region prison intelligence unit, said: "This is yet another example of our positive and proactive partnership working with the prisons and local policing teams in Doncaster combatting organised criminality.

“Such action demonstrates we will identify those individuals who seek to convey and supply contraband into prisons, be held to account and that there will be serious consequences to their actions.

“Paget is now behind bars as a serving prisoner – I hope this sends a strong message to anyone else thinking of furthering their criminal enterprises by supplying drugs into custodial environments.”