A 30-year-old Suffolk woman who was involved in the supply of cocaine has been given a suspended prison sentence.

Sentencing Katie Coombes, Judge David Pugh said he was taking an exceptional course by not sending her straight to prison because of the efforts she had made to turn her life around since her arrest.

Coombes was stopped by police as she was driving in Newmarket and was found to have £1,300 in a pocket of her jeans, Ipswich Crown Court heard.

When a mobile phone, which was on the central console, was analysed it was found to contain messages consistent with her supplying small quantities of cocaine to a small group of drug users.

Coombes, of Cutters Close, Beck Row, admitted being concerned in the supply of cocaine in May last year.

She was given a 24 month prison sentence suspended for 24 months, a 20 day rehabilitation activity requirement and a curfew for four months.

She was also given a trail monitoring requirement for four months.

Matthew Sorrel-Cameron, for Coombes, said his client had been a class A drug user but since the offence she had changed her life.

He said Coombes had previously spent £150 a fortnight on drugs but now no longer used cocaine and had a full time job as a trainee chef.