Parc prison: Jodie Beer sentenced for smuggling drugs

This drop-off, on 1 February 2022, happened in the same way, but this time the items were placed in a Tesco bag and included two orange juice cartons, a bag of what she then believed to be the drug MDMA, and a £5,000 cash payment.

Mr Cobbe said it was “obvious to anyone who picked them up” that the orange juice cartons also contained items.

The following day, she went out in Swansea with her girlfriend, dining at a steakhouse and spending about £300 at Tommy Hilfiger shop.

During her shift on 3 February 2022, her manager asked her to move her car, and it was at this point that she was arrested and the Tesco bag and items seized.

In total, it contained 21.86g of cocaine – of which 18.6g was high purity – as well as 628g of cannabis, 156g tabs of prescription painkiller buprenorphine, 10 mobile phones, six mobile phone keys, 10 USB cables and nine sim cards.

The drugs alone were valued at between £22,000 and £62,600.

Police also seized £3,935 of cash from a wardrobe in her girlfriend’s house later that day.

Mr Cobbe told the court Beer had received extensive training from her employers, including being told that prisoners could attempt to manipulate staff, and was “given guidance on how to ensure professional boundaries”.

He said Beer “must have understood that it was her duty to report” this type of approach, adding she had made no such report but “understood how the system worked” because she had reported other types of prisoner misbehaviour.