Guilty drug case verdict
A woman, who attempted to smuggle cannabis into Addington Remand Prison, has been found guilty by Judge Bradford in a reserved decision given in the District Court on a charge of possession of 2.9 g of cannabis for
supply. Susan Mary Birkbeck, aged 23, unemployed, has been remanded on bail to March 26 for sentence. She was represented by Mr M. J. Glue and Sergeant G. G. Cleland appeared for the police.
Evidence was given at the defended hearing that Birkbeck took the cannabis into the prison in a small packet wrapped in plastic paper which was concealed in her bra when she went to visit Era Lucian Hall.
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Press, 14 March 1985, Page 16
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