WOMAN caught smuggling drugs into Lincoln Prison has been sentenced to 12 months behind bars.

Natalie Flint, 20, admitted passing 4.28 grammes of cannabis to her boyfriend during a visit to the category B jail.

Lincoln Crown Court heard prison officers searched Flint's partner after they become suspicious about activity between them.

Edna Leonard, prosecuting, said Flint's boyfriend admitted to possessing the drug, which had a street value of about £15.

But Miss Leonard told the judge: "Inside prison the cannabis would have a much higher value of somewhere between £30 and £75." Flint, 20 of Hickling Court, Mansfield, admitted supplying cannabis and possessing a Class C drug during the visit on April 10.

Passing sentence, Judge Michael Heath told Flint there was no alternative.

He said: "People who take cannabis into prison must go to prison themselves."