Former hair model sold heroin

4:01pm Tuesday 5th August 2008

Comments (9)   Have your say »

A former model who helped sell drugs to an undercover police officer is determined to kick her heroin habit, a court heard.

Joanne Shooter, 29, worked as a model for hair magazines before her addiction.

She appeared at Lewes Crown Court for sentence yesterday after admitting two charges of supplying class A drugs at an earlier hearing.

The court heard Shooter was caught helping her boyfriend supply heroin to an undercover police officer in Brighton in November last year.

After a detective, known as Jackie, contacted Shooter on her mobile phone an arrangement was made to meet outside the library in Whitehawk Way.

Shooter turned up with her boyfriend who handed over a wrap of heroin. A second deal to the same officer was made outside the library six days later.

Shooter, a mother of one, of Brentwood Road, Brighton, and her boyfriend were later arrested. He was given a drug rehabilitation order by magistrates in March.

Beverley Cherrill, defending, said: “She is determined to be drug free.”

Shooter told the court she started taking heroin at the age of 17.

She was given a 12-month community order with a requirement she completes a drug rehabilitation programme.

Judge Charles Kemp told her: “These courts take a serious view of anybody involved in the supply of class A drugs because you have absolutely no control over those drugs once they leave your hands.

“I hope you are going to take advantage of the chance you have been given. Don’t blow it.”