A WOMAN has been spared a prison sentence for her part in producing and supplying drugs worth more than £1,100 from a property in Helensburgh.

Joanna Thomas was arrested and charged along with three men in April 2019 after police carried out a search of a property in the Churchill area of the town.

The Advertiser reported at the time of the raid that Police Scotland officers had recovered cannabis, heroin and cocaine from the home in Malcolm Place.

Almost three years on Thomas appeared at Dumbarton Sheriff Court on Friday (January 14) for sentencing on a charge of being concerned in the supply of controlled drugs.

The court was told that police had acted on confidential information received in March 2019 alleging that activities related to drug supply were being carried out at the address, and had obtained a drugs search warrant before gaining entry the following month.

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Thomas and two others were detained in a first floor bedroom while officers searched the property, recovering silver foil with brown powder and a wrap with white powder.

Five cannabis plants, each with a value of £200, were recovered from a bedroom, along with more than two grams of heroin valued at £80 and 1.8 grams of cocaine with the same value.

Forty-seven-year-old Thomas, who now lives in Gray Street, Alexandria, was listed in court papers alongside two co-accused whose cases were dealt with separately.

At Friday’s hearing Thomas was handed a community payback order as a direct alternative to a prison sentence.

Sheriff Maxwell Hendry ordered her to carry out 100 hours of unpaid work in the community.

She will also be supervised by social workers for 12 months.