A Pembroke Dock woman who admitted possessing 59.6 grammes of cannabis was fined £75 by Haverfordwest magistrates on Tuesday.

Forty-five-year-old Donna Marie Koelmel, of Wavell Crescent, was stopped by police while driving her car in Red Roses in the early hours of June 7 last year.

Prosecutor Gerald Neave told the court that officers carried out a spot check and when they opened the door of the Fiat Bravo, they could smell cannabis, and discovered a box in the boot containing the drug.

When interviewed, Ms Koelmel explained that she had been away for a few days with friends in the Lake District and had met some people there who had offered her cannabis.

She agreed to meet the people, who were also heading back to Wales, by the Sugar Loaf mountain, and purchased the drug from them for £100.

Her solicitor, Mark Layton, explained that she had not been smoking the drug in the car when she was stopped and the cannabis had been kept in the boot.

He explained that his client had purchased the drug for her own use and did not intend to supply it to anyone else, and, although the police had said that it had an estimated street value of £590, she had paid £100 for it.

As well as the fine, the magistrates ordered her to pay costs of £85 and a £20 victim surcharge. The destruction of the drugs was also ordered.