A woman who admitted falsely obtaining more than £12,400 in benefits from the Department of Work and Pensions was jailed for 163 days.
Susan Malone, 45, of Clepington Road, admitted that between February 2010 and January 29 2016, at Watson Street and elsewhere unknown, she obtained £12,451.44 to which she was not entitled by failing to inform the DWP that she had capital in the bank exceeding the prescribed limit in relation to income support and employment and support allowances.
She further admitted that on June 8 2016, in Clepington Road, she was concerned in the supply of heroin.
Sheriff Gillian Martin-Brown said a social work report showed Malone was unsuitable for unpaid work or supervision and there was no other option but a custodial sentence.
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