Church deacon's daughter was Bristol drugs courier
A church deacon's daughter caught delivering heroin and crack cocaine has been given a two-year supervision order and a six-month curfew at Bristol Crown Court.
Garcia Brown, 31, of Bishop Edmond House, Stapleton Road, pleaded guilty to possessing heroin and crack cocaine with intent to supply.
Police on duty in Queen Ann Road, Barton Hill in February last year stopped Brown as she got out of a taxi. She was carrying a film cannister containing just over 2g of heroin and 4g of crack.
Brown told police someone had asked her to deliver the film canister containing the substances to a house. She was caught there on CCTV film three times.
Tabitha Macfarlane, defending, told Bristol Crown Court Brown client came from a good family in Jamaica.
She came to the UK in 2002, took a business course and married a man in 2003 who was "incredibly" abusive.
Miss Macfarlane said he pushed Brown down the stairs when she was 32 weeks pregnant, and distress and depression dragged her into addiction to class A drugs.
Bristol Crown Court judge Julian Lambert told Brown: "Be a good mother to your son and a good citizen."
3 Comments
by Steven, North Bristol
Monday, January 26 2009, 11:39AM
“What on earth has the guilty person's father's occupation got to do with this?”
by bob, Bristol
Monday, January 26 2009, 8:17AM
“two-year supervision order and a six-month curfew
That really taught her a lesson then,plays the game=legal system,goes all the way to Crown Court with all the entailed expense and walks away laughing at the joke of a sentence”
by bob gibbs, Bristol
Monday, January 26 2009, 8:15AM
“two-year supervision order and a six-month curfew
That really taught her a lesson then”