Paula Hale

Paula Hale, of Pant Celydd, Margam, will spend a year behind bars herself after admitting drug possession with intent to supply
Prosecutor Richard Evans told Hale’s sentencing hearing at Cardiff Crown Court that prison officers overheard inmate Richard Lamb-Davies on the phone. His conversation alerted them that an attempt would be made to smuggle drugs into the jail.
On May 15 this year, mother-of-three Hale visited HMP Cardiff and, before being searched, was asked if she was carrying any contraband.
Hale produced two cling-film packages – one containing 6.96 grammes of cannabis and the second a similar amount of heroin.