Woman jailed for supplying heroin to man who died
A WOMAN who supplied the heroin that killed her friend after he joked “I will die” has been jailed.
Robert Chisholm died at his home from a combination of the heroin Sarah Thompson gave him and alcohol.
A court heard college student Thompson had supplied the 38-yearold in the past and he had overdosed and fallen unconscious previously.
But on the day he passed away, he had again been in touch with the 27-year-old asking for more drugs.
Newcastle Crown Court heard he had joked “I will ******* die, lass” during a text conversation about how much he wanted.
Now Thompson has been jailed for a year after she admitted supplying a £20 deal of the deadly drug, which she obtained from her dealer.
Sentencing her, Recorder Ben Nolan QC said heroin causes “death and extreme misery”.
The judge told her: “You are an intelligent young woman with a number of qualifications and the capacity to think clearly and intelligently.
“The effect of his ingestion of heroin was calamitous. He immediately collapsed and died.
“The post-mortem report indicates the level of morphine injected into his blood was within potentially lethal range. His death occurred immediately after the heroin was administered.
“You are not, of course, charged with unlawfully causing his death and that must be recognised immediately.
“His death, immediately after taking the heroin which you supplied him, is an obvious and gross aggravating factor in relation to this offence – particularly so because in interview you described a previous occasion when you supplied him with heroin and where he immediately overdosed and became unconscious.
“Having witnessed that, you continued to supply him with heroin and on this occasion there were the awful, tragic consequences to which I have already referred.”
The court heard when Thompson turned up at Mr Chisholm’s house at South Durham Court, in Sunderland, with a £20 bag of heroin, she “showed him” how to find a vein so he could inject himself.
She then went to his bathroom to inject her share of the deal into her groin and found him passed out on the sofa when she came back.
The court heard she immediately alerted the emergency services but Mr Chisholm could not be saved.
Mr Pallister said: “Death was attributable to a combination of morphine and alcohol.”
Thompson, of Chestnut Crescent, Sunderland, admitted supplying heroin and producing a small amount of cannabis found at her home.
Vic Laffey, defending, told the court: “She is devastated at this man’s death.”
Mr Laffey said Thompson is now drug free and at college, where she has obtained qualifications and made efforts to turn her life around completely.
Mr Laffey said Thompson made no attempt to deny her involvement in what happened and sought help as soon as she saw that Mr Chisholm was in trouble.