Scots gangster's moll spared jail for prison drug smuggling amid kill fear claim
dailyrecord.co.ukA woman caught smuggling drugs into a Scottish prison and giving them to her "career criminal" boyfriend amid fears he'd kill her if she didn't has been spared jail.
Lyndsey Lamont claims she took cocaine worth £800 into HMP Greenock, in Inverclyde, because she'd been pressured by Stuart Sharp.The 29-year-old gave the class A drug to Sharp, who is also known as Stuart Blackwood, John Sharp and John Mitchell and has been convicted of a number of serious crimes.
He has 14 pages of previous convictions, including serious assault, drugs offences, possession of a sword and domestic abuse.Defence solicitor Amy Spencer told Greenock Sheriff Court Lamont feared for her life if she didn't do as the violent offender demanded.
The lawyer added: "The man named in charge one was in a relationship with Miss Lamont at the time, and that is a relationship which was plagued with domestic abuse."She is an example of someone who was experiencing a high level of coercive control at that time in her life and felt pressured due to the control from him at that time.
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