Home Used As Drug Factory ; Woman Described As Gullible but Greedy Is Jailed for 4 Years: Woman at Centre of Network

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A WOMAN who let her home become the hub of a sophisticated Teesside drugs network starts a four-year prison sentence today.

Julie Aylesbury was caught with a narcotics factory in her home after a half-kilo drug and cash exchange was rumbled by plain clothes police. She had large packages of Class A drugs and handed over pounds 7,000 of heroin to a courier while pounds 27,000 worth of cocaine sat in her home. Aylesbury, 49, was said to be used by dealers because she was, in the words of a doctor, "highly suggestible, vulnerable and eager to please". But a Teesside Crown Court judge said, despite her difficulties, she greedily assumed a central role in the "evil" trade Her home, where she lived alone, was equipped as a centre for preparing Class A drugs for sale. Kit included a hydraulic press carrying her fingerprints, two blenders and six sets of scales carrying drug traces, a weighing machine, dust masks and plastic gloves and glasses. Police discovered 492g of cocaine, along with cutting agents, at the property on Devon Crescent, Billingham. Aylesbury wheeled a hold-all into court to be sentenced for her drugs and money laundering crimes - her first offences.

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Home Used As Drug Factory ; Woman Described As Gullible but Greedy Is Jailed for 4 Years: Woman at Centre of Network

Recorder Andrew Kershaw told her yesterday: "It is quite plain from the evidence that youwere allowing your home to be used as the centre for this distribution network...

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