An outbreak of covid on a ladies’ prison wing delayed a would-be jail drugs smuggler from learning her fate.

Patricia Flood, 55, of Monks Way, Southampton, was due to be sentenced on Monday morning for trying to take heroin, crack cocaine and cannabis into Bullingdon prison, near Bicester, on December 18, 2019.

She’d been remanded the week before after she was finally arrested on a court-issued warrant – having repeatedly skipped earlier court hearings.

On Monday, Judge Michael Gledhill QC heard that a number of inmates at the prison where Flood was being held had tested positive and the governor had put the entire wing on isolation.

He adjourned the case until December 20 for sentence.

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