A prisoner from Carlisle who plotted to supply drugs while behind bars has been told he faces a "significant" additional jail term.

Stuart Brian Hardy, 28, was unanimously cleared of conspiracy to supply class A heroin, following a week-long trial at the city's crown court.

However, Hardy - who is already serving a nine-year prison sentence for conspiracy to supply heroin - pleaded guilty to two offences; conspiring to supply both class B amphetamine and also the psychoactive substance spice.

Both crimes were committed while he was locked up.

Adjourning sentence, Judge Peter Davies told Hardy, previously of Scalegate Road: "You can expect a significant custodial sentence." The judge added: "The sentence which will be imposed by me will be consecutive."

Hardy will be punished on a date to be fixed along with his 48-year-old father, Stuart Lee Hardy, and 47-year-old Avril Kay Fallows.

Hardy senior, of Yewdale Road, Carlisle, admitted conspiracy to supply heroin, while Fallows, of Wedgewood Road, Flimby was convicted, unanimously, by the jury having gone on trial alongside Hardy junior.

Judge Davies granted Fallows bail as an "act of mercy", but said her crime was "particularly serious and grave".

Of the impending sentencing hearing, the judge told her: "Unless there is something which is quite unforeseen and unexpected, I can't imagine anything other than an immediate custodial sentence."