A DRUG dealing mother-of-four who was arrested twice in a fortnight was jailed for two years yesterday.

Teesside Crown Court was told that Amanda Sharp, 37, sold cannabis to friends to fund her addiction to amphetamines.

Police found drugs and cash at her home, in Warren Street, Middlesbrough, when they raided it twice in ten days.

Richard Bennett, prosecuting, said that in the first raid, on February 17, police recovered cannabis worth £773 from a bedroom, the kitchen and her trouser pocket.

She also had amphetamines worth £97.

Ten days later, the police searched her home again on a warrant and found more cannabis, worth £303, in a bedroom and the living room.

Sharp, who was there with a number of children, had 11 wraps of cannabis in her clothing and amphetamines worth £160 in her tracksuit top.

Jonnie Walker, mitigating, said: "She has been addicted to amphetamines for a number of years and her continuing need led her to need to raise sums of money.

"Sales of cannabis, principally to friends, funded her addiction.

"She recognises that what she did was wrong."

Judge David Bryant told Sharp: "You have aggravated that offending by repeating the offences and what makes it even worse was that you were given a conditional discharge for possession of amphetamines only days before your second arrest.

"Your behaviour as such completely disregards the law, and there must be consecutive sentences."

Sharp was jailed for two years after she pleaded guilty to two charges of possessing cannabis with intent to supply and two of possession of amphetamines.

The drugs seized were ordered to be destroyed and £70 that was recovered was given to the chief constable for the fight against drugs.