NHS worker jailed for taking nine grams of cocaine into Creamfields on weekend off

An NHS care worker has been jailed after she was caught taking nine grams of cocaine into Creamfields Festival on a weekend off.

Courtney Healy, from Maesteg, South Wales, was found to be in possession of fourteen wraps of the substance at the dance music festival last year.

The twenty-one-year-old had travelled over 200 miles from her home in Wales to attend the festival, where she was caught with 8.9 grams of cocaine worth up to £1,100 following a tent search.

While Healy claimed she was taking the substance in for her friends, text messages later revealed she had brought it in for a man already at the festival who offered to pay her £200.

Courtney Healy / Facebook

Prosecuting, Richard Edwards said in the recent court case: “Multiple messages included Healy asking her friends in a group chat how they were taking their drugs in.”

According to Edwards, one of the text messages read: “Oh my god I am dreading this, you are all smackheads [sic].”

In another text message, Healy had admitted to using marijuana, writing: “I smoke it every day. I feel like I might rip someone’s head off otherwise.

“My mum would actually send me to jail if she found out I done it.”

Defending, Bernice Campbell outlined how Healy has no previous criminal convictions, but said that she has a ‘devil-may-care’ attitude towards drugs.

Courtney Healy / Facebook

She also said at the time of the festival, Healy was going through a ‘low point’ in her life. 

She added that it’s a ‘terrible, terrible’ shame for Healy that she was just the ‘go-between’ rather than being concerned in the onward supply of drugs.

Healy pleaded guilty to possession of cocaine with the intent to supply at Chester Crown Court and was jailed for three years. 

Sentencing, Judge Steven Everett said: “Yes, she can hang her head. But this is not a naïve young woman is it? It shows she is completely enveloped in the drug culture and is very blasé about it.

“You can’t be both – a health care support worker and somebody that is involved in the supply of terrible class A drugs. And you chose the latter.”