Mother-of-two Charlotte O'Brien from Second Avenue, Dawlish has been spared jail and sent home for Christmas with her children.
O'Brien made a full confession to cocaine dealing and revealed how she had done it to pay off debts run up from her own addiction to amphetamines.
Halfway through a police interview O'Brien decided to turn her back on drugs and devote herself to being a loving mother. Her jail sentence of nine month's was suspended for two years ordering her to receive 18 month's supervision.