A WOMAN was caught by sniffer dogs as she smuggled drugs into HMP Hewell a court heard.

Rasheda Pervez was trapped by trained dogs as she tried to take synthetic cannabis and real cannabis into the Tardebigge prison.

Peter Cooke, prosecuting, told the court that Pervez, of Latham Crescent, Tipton, West Midlands, went through an initial search at Hewell on the afternoon of November 10 last year but sniffer dogs discovered she was carrying synthetic cannabis wrapped around real cannabis in a packet stuffed down her jeans.

He said the synthetic cannabis "carried a high value" in prison.

Pervez, aged 30, pleaded guilty to taking a prohibited item into prison and also to possession of £10 of cannabis found in her car in the prison car park.

Mohammed Hafeez, defending, said she had picked up the drugs from a friend of her jailed partner in Birmingham.

The mother-of-three was instructed to leave them in the visitor’s room for someone to collect later.

Mr Hafeez said she had been having treatment for mental health issues.

Pervez was given six months suspended for 12 months for taking in the prohibited item with one month concurrent for possession, a total of six months, with supervision by probation for a year.