Mark Hawkes was caught sneaking a quantity of Class C drugs into Stockton’s Holme House Prison.Prison officers saw him put something into his mouth, which turned out to be a condom containing the drugs.When questioned by police he said he had been given them by someone else and threatened if he didn’t take them into the prison.In a separate incident Hawkes had stolen pairs of jeans from a shop in Stockton High Street in order to sell them to fund his drug addiction.Peter Wishlade, mitigating, said Hawkes had become addicted to heroin and as a result he had amassed a record for “acquisitive crime”.Hawkes, he said, had been told by someone else he had to take the drugs into prison, which he did.“He did that simply to avoid the possible consequences not only to himself but friends and family,” said Mr Wishlade.He said Hawkes had told him he was free of drugs and he looked “bright-eyed and bushy-tailed”.Hawkes, 27, of Cherry Court, Stockton, admitted possession of drugs with intent to supply and theft and was jailed for 14 months
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