Criminals who were part of a group that sent drug-soaked letters and plotted to smuggle drugs into a prison have been sentenced. Ashley Haywood and Gemma Beeby were involved in conspiring to supply drugs into HMP Ranby by plotting to throw them into the prison grounds.
A police investigation discovered the pair were part of a larger group involved in sending drug-soaked letters to the prison. On April 16, 2020, officers received a report from a solicitors firm in Leicestershire that someone had attempted to fraudulently print some paper off in their name using their company logo.
They had only found out about this when the printing company could not get hold of the original buyer for payment and contacted the solicitors firm directly, who had no knowledge of the purchase. Enquiries revealed it was 29-year-old Carla Fitzgerald who asked for the letters to be printed.
