Drug dealer escapes jail as judge told of breast cancer

A DRUG dealer caught in a covert police operation walked free from court yesterday after a sheriff heard she had been suffering from breast cancer.

Sheriff Robert McCreadie told Carrie Calderwood he was paying "particular" attention to the illness in allowing her to escape a jail sentence.

He told her: "Having regard to your personal circumstances, and particularly the illness you have suffered, I am satisfied I can impose a restriction of liberty order."

Calderwood – who was caught with 1,000 worth of illicit tablets – was ordered to stay indoors on a tag from 7pm to 7am for the next nine months.

When she was caught with the stash of diazepam, she claimed she needed 1,000 pills for a suicide bid after being told she had cancer.

She claimed she was planning to take her own life, ironically because she felt she had let down her parents through her involvement in the drugs underworld.

Calderwood, 28, Carnegie Court, Perth, admitted having diazepam in her possession in Watergate, Perth, on 18 December last year, with intent to supply.