POLICE watched as a woman carried out two drug deals in Kidderminster streets, Worcester Crown Court was told.

Louise Grainge sold wraps of heroin to two men and more was found inside her body when she was arrested and taken to the police station, said Mr Gareth Walters, prosecuting.

Grainge, 25, of Elmdale Drive, Kidderminster, pleaded guilty to two charges of supplying heroin and one of possessing the drug intending to supply it to others.

After hearing that she had spent six-and-a-half months in custody, Recorder Anthony Palmer QC made a drug treatment and testing order for 18 months, which allowed her to leave court.

Anthony Cole, who was driving her around town, pleaded guilty to being concerned in the supply of heroin. Cole, 28, of Comberton Hill, Kidderminster, was made the subject of a community rehabilitation order for 18 months and ordered to undertake a drug group work programme.

Detectives had been keeping watch on a house in Spennells on November 15 last year when the accused were seen leaving the address, said Mr Walters. Their car stopped in George Street where a man was sold two wraps for £35. Grainge then did another deal for £10 with a man in Stourbridge Road.

Grainge frankly admitted the dealing and said she did it to fund her own heroin habit, which was costing £30 a day and her income was only £85 a week. She was said to have 32 previous convictions, mainly for shoplifting.

Her counsel, Mr Tony Badenoch, said she had a history of drug-related offending which had escalated into street dealing. But she had served the equivalent of a 13-month sentence while in custody on remand.

Miss Samantha Forsyth submitted that Cole was on the fringe of the dealing and had only been the chauffeur for Grainge.