A heroin addict has been jailed for his role in supplying the drug to a fellow user.

Benjamin Reynolds received a 37-month sentence at Carlisle Crown Court today.

Reynolds, 32, had admitted supplying the class A drug to Michelle Barnes - a Carlisle woman who later died in custody having been locked up for a separate drugs crime.

Her death in a County Durham jail, in December, triggered an investigation.

Reynolds's offence was committed in February last year. He was said to have allowed his then home, on Carlisle's Botcherby estate, to be used for the packaging of heroin.

One of the two drug wraps found by police in Miss Barnes's possession contained Reynolds' fingerprints.

Reynolds, of Lindisfarne Street, Carlisle, was sent to prison by Recorder Jeremy Lasker.

The judge told him: "Those who are addicted to heroin really end up having pretty wretched lives."