Sunderland woman entered Creamfields concealing ecstasy in her body

Keira Wilson has close to 200 tablets of ecstasy concealed in her vagina as she reached the entrance to the Daresbury music festival.

The 25-year-old acted as a drug courier with a view to providing the drugs to an individual inside.

However, she was caught and charged with possession of ecstasy with intent to supply, subsequently appearing before Chester Crown Court last Wednesday to be sentenced.

Rosemary Proctor, prosecuting, explained how the offence occurred on August 27 last year. At around 9pm, she was brought to a police search tent after a drug detection dog indicated the possible presence of drugs.

Inside the tent, the defendant told a police officer that she had drugs concealed inside her vagina, but that she did not know what type or the quantity.

She also said that she was bringing them in for someone else, but that she did not know who this person was.

A search recovered from her vagina a ‘large pouch’ containing 192 pills of MDMA, more commonly known as ecstasy, which would have a total value inside the festival of £1,922.

Officers also seized her mobile phone, which showed text message conversations between August 25 and 26 with another person discussing obtaining tickets for the festival.

The texts also show that she would take the ‘gear’ inside for a man, effectively acting as a courier smuggling the drugs inside to hand to a third party.

In defence of his client, Matthew Hopkins referenced her guilty plea at the first opportunity and her lack of any recent or relevant previous convictions.

She was sentenced at Chester Crown Court

He spoke of how the person the defendant was texting suggested taking the drugs in rather than her, and that she had initial reservations about doing so but later agreed to the plan.

“Because of this foolish decision, this 25-year-old young lady stands before the court facing a substantial prison sentence,” he said.

“The process has been a salutary one for her. She poses a low risk of reoffending and is not going to do this again.

“She has come her from her home in Sunderland and is expecting not to go back.

“She understands the situation and knows she will not get a second chance, but I ask the court to give her a first chance.”

Before sentencing, recorder Simon Parrington said: “It is quite clear you knew what you were doing, and even if you had not realised what you were doing when you decided to do it, you would have realised when you approached the Creamfields entrance.

“The site is plastered with notices and bins there to dispose of drugs, yet you continued on, and like so many you were caught.

“What you did was utterly stupid, and I hope you have learnt a sharp lesson.”

Wilson, of Castles Green in Sunderland, was sentenced to two years in prison suspended for 18 months.

She must also undertake 150 hours of unpaid work and pay £468 covering court costs and a statutory victim surcharge, while an order for the forfeiture and destruction of the drugs was approved.

Recorder Parrington added: “Treat this as a lesson and do not do this again. If you do, you will almost certainly be going to prison straight away.”