A DRUG-ADDICTED prisoner prepared for her latest spell behind bars by concealing a selection of drugs about her body, a court was told.

But in the days after Lucy Holm was admitted to Low Newton Women’s Prison, in Durham, staff twice made drug recoveries in searches of her cell.

Durham Crown Court heard that Holm was jailed for five years for burglary and drug supply on May 28, but later that day prison officers at Low Newton found a small package containing 2.2g of heroin in her cell bedding.

Jonathan Walker, prosecuting, said she was re-located to a cell in the segregation unit, but when she was searched there two days later a small plastic egg dropped from her underwear.

It contained a mix of class C drugs totalling 9.12g in weight.

The court heard she admitted taking them into prison to help her overcome the effects of “rattling”, or withdrawal symptoms from heroin abuse.

Holm, 29, originally from Maryport, in Cumbria, admitted bringing prohibited items into a prison establishment.

Judge Robert Adams jailed her for two months to run alongside the existing five-year sentence she is serving.