Drug barons made life hell for 29-year-old addict Keeley Hensey.
Easy-going Hensey claimed they forced her to sell heroin and crack cocaine to pay off drug debts.
She was also ordered by the "bullying" dealers to go shoplifting to buy more of their class A-drugs, Basildon Crown Court heard.
When she was finally searched by police after one theft spree, Hensey was found to have 27 packets of cocaine and heroin.
She told officers her boyfriend, who had escaped capture, "will kill me".
Hensey, of Palmerston Road, Westcliff, pleaded guilty to possessing the cocaine and heroin with intent to supply and two shoplifting offences.
She was jailed for a total of three-and-a-half years.
Judge Daniel Worsley said he accepted Hensey was "desperate and frightened" but she had a shocking record for being involved in drugs and theft.
Published Thursday, December 12, 2002
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