Sugar daddy, 82, smuggled drugs into Wakefield women’s prison

AN 82-year-old ‘sugar daddy’ caught bringing crack cocaine into a Yorkshire woman’s prison for one of the inmates.
William Jones was caught bringing crack cocaine into a woman's prison. Picture: Ross Parry AgencyWilliam Jones was caught bringing crack cocaine into a woman's prison. Picture: Ross Parry Agency
William Jones was caught bringing crack cocaine into a woman's prison. Picture: Ross Parry Agency

A court heard how William Jones was led astray by the younger woman when he was caught at New Hall Jail with 1.35g of the drug, which was worth about £100.

The former engineer was charged with supplying the Class A drug and possessing it with intent to supply to a female prisoner, Michaela Moss, at the prison in Wakefield.

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Leeds Crown Court heard Jones, who was considerably younger than Moss, had been befriended by her over the last year and when she was sent to prison it appears she was still in contact with him, via letters and phone calls.

Moss arranged for the elderly family man to meet up with a third party and get the drugs, and to meet her in prison.

Martin Robertshaw, prosecuting, said: “Clearly Moss had formed a relationship with Mr Jones, who has been looked upon as being her sugar daddy.”

Jones, of Hull, pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing to supplying the drug on July 17 2012 and possessed 1.35g of it with intent to supply between June and July last year.

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Recorder Deborah Sherwin said: “She is somebody who is a bad influence on you and has got you into lots of trouble. She dragged you into her world of drug taking. You really ought to think long and hard about whether it is in your interest to have any more to do with her.

“She has had lots to do with drugs over a long time.

“You have managed to live for more than eighty years without getting into trouble. Even though you are in your 80’s you could still have been going to prison today.”

Jones was given 12-month prison sentence suspended for two years and has been placed under the supervision of the probation service for one year.

Recorder Sherwin said: “I can’t make you stop all contact with Miss Moss but I would strongly recommend that you do.”