Laura Fyffe, 20, was told she had narrowly escaped a prison sentence because of the small amount of cannabis she had passed on at Perth Prison.

Perth Sheriff Court heard the girl was just three months old at the time.

As Fyffe, from Invergowrie, handed the child to her partner, prison staff watching CCTV noticed she had also passed a package to him.

It was later found that it had contained £20 of cannabis.

The court heard that Fyffe's partner had been bullied in jail and was told that if he did not bring drugs into the prison his lover and the girl would be harmed.

Fyffe admitted being concerned in the supply of cannabis resin at Perth Prison on 7 July.

The prisoner also admitted to police that he had asked her to bring drugs into the jail.

Solicitor Kevin Hampton, defending, said: "It's an all too familiar tale. She was in a relationship with this man and he was sent to prison.

"Her partner had never been in custody before and he was finding himself vulnerable and a target for bullying.

"It was made known to him that harm would come to her and the child. Initially she would have nothing to do with it. She refused and refused.

"He became more desperate and sadly she succumbed."

Sheriff Lindsay Foulis told Fyffe that by taking drugs into prison she was encouraging bullying and threats against weaker inmates.

He said: "There is no doubt that in normal cases a custodial sentence is appropriate for cases of taking drugs into prison.

"By any stretch of the imagination this was a minimal amount you took in. If the prison value was £20, on the street it would be £10 or less.

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