A drug addict jailed for neglect after the drowning death of her 11 month-old son was back in court today after being caught with heroin.
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Finola Cash, 37, was sentenced to six years imprisonment in 2015 for manslaughter after son Ricky's bath seat fell into water while she was out looking for crack cocaine.
Today, she appeared at Uxbridge Magistrates' Court, which heard she was not being recalled to prison despite still serving the sentence and being subject to licensing conditions.
Cash, of Featherstone Road, Southall pleaded guilty to possessing heroin in nearby Southall Broadway on October 9.
Prosecutor Siobhan O'Shaughnessy told the court it was 10.25pm when police spotted Cash – who is from the Irish travelling community – walking along the pavement with drug paraphernalia in one hand.
They thought she was rolling drugs and stopped her for a search.
In her right jean pocket they found a small wrap of brown powder, which she admitted was heroin and this was confirmed after a lab test.
Cash told the court: “It was such a small amount because I'm trying to wean myself off heroin.
“I'm trying to get my life back on track and have my own property.
“I am trying to get on a methadone 'script so I don't get back in trouble.”
The court heard Cash is complying with her licence conditions and is being supported by social services and in receipt of Universal Credit.
Six years ago when Ricky died she was living in an Edgware hotel bedsit and her deceased son had crack cocaine in his blood as a result of either passive smoking or contamination from a surface or finger.
He also had severe nappy rash, caused by Cash's failure to regularly change him.
She was known to social services at the time due to a history of drug abuse and domestic violence and tests revealed she had smoked crack cocaine in the twelve hours before Ricky's death.
Cash was also abusing heroin and methadone for the previous nine months.
Uxbridge magistrates told her the fact she was near the end of her licence and was not being recalled to prison was in her favour.
She was fined £40, with £85 costs and ordered to pay a £34 victim surcharge.
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