A JUDGE warned prison visitors that they risk ending up behind bars if they attempt to smuggle drugs into jails.
Judge Maurice Carr adjourned sentence on 39-year-old Gary Bilclough yesterday, saying that he will almost inevitably be jailed.
Bilclough was seen dropping a package containing cannabis resin into a cup during a visit to an inmate in Durham Prison.
Durham Crown Court was told Bilclough admitted taking the drug into the jail to pass on to the inmate.
Judge Carr told him: "The public has to know any attempt to take drugs of any type into prison will be met with an immediate sentence of imprisonment."
Bilclough, of Newbiggin Hall, Newcastle, who admitted possession of a class B drug with intent to supply, was bailed to return for sentence in two months.
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