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Toma Augustaityte, 27, was caught with two bags of cannabis and hundreds of pounds of cash stuffed in her underwear
A drug dealing scientist smiled as she walked free from court just minutes after she sobbed in front of a judge while clutching a cuddly toy.
Toma Augustaityte, 27, from Coventry, was caught with two bags of cannabis and hundreds of pounds of cash stuffed in her underwear when police stopped her car.
Phone messages revealed she had been dealing drugs for five months and had been trying to buy a kilo of cannabis.
Augustaityte, a scientist with a London-based diagnostics company, admitted possessing cannabis with intent to supply when she appeared at Warwick Crown Court.
The court heard it was the second time she had been caught with cannabis.
Recorder Balraj Bhatia QC handed her a 12-month community order when she appeared last Friday.
He said: 'The aggravating feature is the dealing over a five-month period and the interest in up to a kilo.
'Had she been committed for being concerned in the supply