Jailed drugs smuggler to miss birth of child - Hartlepool Mail

Jailed drugs smuggler to miss birth of child - Hartlepool Mail: "Glen Menzies, 32, was caught with 14 tablets of the heroin substitute Subutex and a wrap of heroin that he was trying to smuggle into Holme House Prison, Stockton.

He was jailed just four weeks before his partner is due to give birth to their child.

Teesside Crown Court was told Menzies was trying to smuggle the drugs by taping them to his body to give to a relative, who he claims had been bullied and threatened with being slashed.

Menzies claimed somebody else had packaged the drugs and he thought he was only carrying Subutex.

He insisted he knew nothing about the heroin, a claim that was accepted by the Crown Prosecution Service, said prosecutor Richard Parsell."