Woman jailed over '£180,000' drugs haul

A WOMAN who supplied enough amphetamine to make 18,000 deals was yesterday jailed for three years and four months.

Ada Mackenzie, 39, of Inverness, sold 18kg of the class B drug over a four-month period. At £10 per one-gram bag, it could have realised £180,000, but she claimed she had sold larger quantities and the proceeds had been only £37,000.

Mackenzie, who has a son and who worked as a delivery driver for a pharmacy, admitted being concerned in the supplying of amphetamine from her home between December 2007 and April 2008. Officers found £4,045 and 100g of the drug, the High Court in Edinburgh heard.

Mackenzie became involved at the request of a former partner who had written to her from jail, asking her to deal to pay off his £25,000 drugs debt. She, too, had been an addict.