School admin assistant sold drugs to pay mum’s debt

Brixton

  A school administrative assistant who was caught selling drugs was spared jail after claiming she was trying to pay off her mother’s £7,000 debt. Tammekia Barnett, 32, was stopped driving her Mercedes through the City of London with 30 bags of cocaine and MDMA stashed under the passenger seat. Police also recovered £120 in cash from the car – but Barnett later claimed she only turned to crime ‘on the spur of the moment’ in a desperate attempt earn…

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