A GRANDMOTHER found with a stash of heroin in her bathroom has been jailed for 18 months.
Forty-five-year-old Sharon Simpson was arrested in November last year after police raided her house and found drugs in the water cistern in the bathroom and the living room, where a crack pipe was also found.
Jonathon Dee, prosecuting, said a total of 32 wraps of heroin were discovered during the search at the property in Burton Court, Louth.
Simpson claimed she was only looking after the drugs for three men from Grimsby who asked her to store the heroin on behalf of a dealer.
But she admitted possession of 6.17 grammes of heroin with intent to supply on November 30 last year.
She claimed that she was pressured into looking after the heroin and only received it shortly before the police arrived.
She told the court: "I just felt intimidated. I'm gullible and I'm stupid.
"I'm the type of person who cannot say no."
Simpson denied a prosecution suggestion that another woman at the property when police arrived was there to buy drugs.
James McLernon, defending, said Simpson has mental health problems.
He told the court that these included agoraphobia and depression.
Judge Sean Morris rejected Simpson's claim that she was intimidated into looking after the drugs for other people and accused her of lying.
The judge said: "I am sure that this woman's explanation is implausible.
"No dealer is going to leave their stash with a user."
