'Darling' says he hid the drugs in the paint set 'Sweet pea' took to jail

THE prisoner for whom Kay Leggett took a paint-by-numbers set into Les Nicolles told the Royal Court yesterday that he had planted drugs in the package without her knowledge.

Miss Leggett, 48 (pictured), denies two counts of possessing Class B drugs – 0.646g of cannabis resin and two mephedrone tablets – with intent to supply when she visited Richard Clarke, 29, at Les Nicolles on 29 September.

He said he had put the drugs in the paint-by-numbers set with the intention of getting them to his brother, who was in Les Nicolles at the time.

In 2006, Mr Clarke was jailed for for six-and-a-half years for his part in the importation of between £18,000 and £20,000-worth of heroin.

Mr Clarke said he had then asked Miss Leggett to bring the set with the cats on, which he knew was under the bed at her flat and which he had originally intended to give his brother.

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