Heroin addict Victoria Haywood, who stored thousands of pounds worth of drugs for a dealer, has again walked free from court after failing on a suspended sentence.

Rather than being sent to jail Haywood, of Greenway Lane, Chippenham, was told she would now not have to complete the 150 hours of community service she was originally ordered to do.

But a judge at Swindon Crown Court was today told the sentence was more onerous as the 22-year-old was being put on a high intensity drug rehabilitation requirement'.

Haywood, who has continued to take heroin, was jailed for a year in March this year but the sentence was suspended for two years.

She was told she must do the community service, attend debt counselling and complete a drug rehabilitation requirement.

But Haywood failed to turn up for an appointment with the probation service less than two weeks after being sentenced then again a few weeks later on May 3.

An earlier hearing was told that she continued to miss appointments and the probation service sought the activation of the jail sentence But Chris Smyth, defending, told the court last month how his client felt she was not getting the help she needed from the probation service.

"It does seem that the order that was set up did not really meet her needs in that she felt various deficiencies in the drug rehabilitation programme," he said.

He added that she had not done any of the community service as six days a week were taken up with appointments on the drugs and probation order.

Now she has been put on the new high intensity' order and told that she will; not have to do any of the community service.

The law requires that if a suspended sentence is breached then if it is not activated and the offender jailed it must be made more onerous.

Marcus Davey, for the probation service, told the latest hearing "It is going to be more onerous as it is a high intensity drug rehabilitation requirement."

Passing the new order and removing the community service Judge Douglas Field said "You are in a serious position because you are in breach of this sentence.

"But having read the addendum to the social inquiry report and the drug rehabilitation requirement report I am minded to give you a further chance to deal with this serious drug problem that you have.

"So in respect of this breach I am going to make a new drug rehabilitation requirement and I note that it is a high intensity requirement and now it is a matter for you.

"If you take advantage of the help that is being offered to you and take advantage it will be of benefit but if you fall by the wayside and fall into breach you will end up in jail. I am going to remove the requirement for unpaid work."

Haywood had more than 800 grams of amphetamines as well as lists of names and numbers when police raided her house last December.

At first she told officers she had forgotten about the drugs, worth £6,536, but then claimed she was looking after them for someone else.