Mother-of-five, 47, who was jailed after utilizing drones with fish hooks and cling movie to smuggle greater than £1million of medicine into prisons is ordered to repay simply £1
A mother who used drones to drop more than £1million of illegal drugs into British prisons has been ordered to repay just £1.
Lucy Adcock, 47, recruited a five-man ground crew to drop packages of cocaine, spice, mobile phones and SIM cards over prison walls.
The mother-of-five was the ‘operational manager’ behind 22 prison drops in under a month – flying in a potential £1,420,000 in drugs and phones.
The drones were airborne for up to 22 minutes flying over prison walls in the middle of the night to drop their cargo into exercise yards.
Adcock was caught after packages of cocaine, spice, cannabis, phones and chargers were flown into Parc Prison, Bridgend, South Wales.
Police were able to download telltale software from the home made, heavy duty drone found in the boot of her car.
It revealed Adcock had also carried out drug drops at HMP Gartree, Leicestershire, HMP Onley, Warwickshire, HMP Guys Marsh, Shaftesbury, HMP High Down, Sutton, and HMP The Mount, Hemel Hempstead.
Prosecutor Matthew Cobbe said there were 22 ‘incursions’ at the six prisons which dropped 600 grams of cocaine over the walls.
Lucy Adcock (pictured), a 47-year-old mother from London, was the group’s ringleader who organised 22 drops in a month across six British jails before she was arrested in a car park, Merthyr Tydfil Crown Court heard
Adcock was caught after packages of cocaine, spice, cannabis, phones and chargers were flown into Parc Prison, Bridgend, South Wales
In the month up to May 11 last year the group had flown drones 22 times over five other prisons (Stock Image)
He said: ‘Adcock played the leading role directing the others in over 20 prison drops in April and May last year.
‘One of the drops took place at Parc prison where staff recovered a package containing Class A and Class B drugs and mobile phones with a value of £50k on the prison market.’
The packages were wrapped in clingfilm and fish hooks were attached to make it easier for prisoners to snag them after being dropped from the drones.
Police analysts were able to place Adcock in the vicinity of the six prisons through ANPR and the mobile phone calls she made to her ground crew.
She was arrested at the Premier Inn, Bridgend, South Wales, and a large drone was discovered in the boot of her car.
Adcock, of Ruislip, London, was jailed for six years in July after admitting conspiracy to convey an A-List article into prison and conspiracy to convey a B-list article into prison between April 12 and May 13 last year.
A Proceeds of Crime Hearing yesterday was told Adcock profited to the tune of £1,262,910 but now has zero assets to her name.
Judge Paul Hobson ordered her to pay just £1 and if she fails to do so within three months she will have to spend an extra day behind bars.
Merthyr Tydfil Crown Court was given no details on how Adcock spent the money.
Dressed all in black and speaking on a video link from Eastwood women’s prison near Bristol Adcock asked if she could have personal photographs that were on her mobile phone when it was seized. The prosecution agreed to the request.
The court ordered the forfeiture and destruction of the gang’s drones, drugs and paraphernalia recovered by police.
