A drug trafficker trapped by a motoring bungle has been jailed for five years at Worcester Crown Court.

But Judge David McEvoy QC said the Court of Appeal may wish to 'consider the safety' of Kirsty Webb's conviction by a jury of possessing 7,068 ecstasy tablets with intent to supply.

Police stopped 28-year-old Webb in a stolen Mercedes because she was not wearing a seatbelt.

But the single mum dropped a carrier bag containing ecstasy as she got out of the car.

A stash of the drug worth £35,000 was then discovered in the boot of another car parked outside her home in Daybrook Close, Brockhill.

She pleaded guilty to possession of 723 ecstasy tablets with intent to supply before the Worcester trial began in February, said Simon Thomas, prosecuting.

She also admitted handling the stolen Mercedes, possession of cannabis and possession of a CS gas cannister.

Her former boyfriend Michael Brown, who lived at her address for a short period, was cleared by a jury at Hereford Crown Court last month of the 7,068 ecstasy tablets charge and possession of a pipebomb. Webb gave evidence for the prosecution against him.

Judge McEvoy said Webb was in a relationship with a drug dealer before she was introduced to Brown, her next lover.

The large stash of ecstasy came from Brown's Nissan, he said, and one of his fingerprints had been found on the stash.

The judge said because of her role in Brown's trial he could cut a 10-year sentence to five years.

Brown had been tried with Webb by the Worcester jury first but the pipebomb charge had been excluded from the trial.

The jury was unable to reach a verdict on Brown and the case went for retrial at Hereford on both the drug and bomb charges.

Judge McEvoy said it was 'difficult to divorce' the ecstasy from the pipebomb at the first trial and the Court of Appeal may consider Webb's conviction to be unsafe.

Defence counsel Martin Jenkins said all Webb did 'was at the instigation of Brown'.

She was vulnerable and had come under his influence.

Brown had lavished money on her, he said, and had an exciting background. She had foolishly become a drug courier.

Mr Jenkins said Webb's young daughter was being well cared for by an ex-partner. That made her even more desperate to be released.