A WOMAN who walked into a police station to hand over scores of deals of hard drugs she had been selling on the streets has been given a suspended jail sentence.

Dawn Tooze, 29, went to Gablecross in June last year with 62 wraps of heroin and crack cocaine and told officers that she had been selling them for London dealers.

And the court heard that at about the same time she was caught smuggling drugs into High Down Prison in Surrey for another member of the gang.

But after being told she was doing well on a suspended sentence for that matter and the case was unusual a judge imposed another suspended sentence.

Hannah Squire, prosecuting, told Swindon Crown Court that Tooze walked into the police station on Friday, June 5, last year.

After handing over the drugs, worth £620, she told officers that she had been selling the drugs for the previous six weeks.

Miss Squire said Tooze paid money into the bank account of one of the dealers on four occasions as well as handing over cash when she was given drugs to supply.

She said deposits of £370, £308, £410 and £600 were made, and when she was questioned she admitted selling up to £1,000 a day.

Miss Squire said it was accepted that she was ‘a Swindon drug runner’, after getting into a relationship with one of the gang.

Tooze, of Walter Close, The Prinnels, pleaded guilty to two counts of being concerned in the supply of class A drugs.

Miss Squire said in May and June last year she went to the prison with drugs in her bra to hand over to an inmate also in the gang.

Rob Ross, defending, said: “This is a wholly unusual set of circumstances. A person wouldn’t go to the police station off their own bat saying ‘Here’s some drugs, this is what I have been doing,’ if they aren’t scared about what is happening.

“It is clear she is now taking in the help she has been given this year.”

Judge Tim Mousley QC said: “Your involvement was done at the direction of others more sophisticated in the supply of drugs that yourself and perhaps under the coercion of others.

“You are under a suspended sentence imposed a few months ago in another court. It has conditions on it.

“The reports to me are, you are doing well under the terms of the order. It indicates that you would benefit from further assistance.”

He imposed a one-year jail term suspended for 18 months with 20 days of rehabilitation activity requirement to work with probation and the Nelson Trust.