JUST when the heartbroken parents of heroin addict Lindsey Adams thought they had lost their daughter forever she kicked her habit and came home.

Paul and Ann Adams, of Highgrove Close, Calne, welcomed back their prodigal daughter and slowly the family began to rebuild their shattered lives. But the 20-year-old was taken away from her family again three weeks later when she was arrested in a dawn police raid.

The next day the Adams watched tearfully as their daughter pleaded guilty to ten charges of supplying heroin, which related to the time before she beat her habit. She was remanded in custody to await sentencing at Swindon Crown Court.

Her arrest two weeks ago was part of a nine-month covert police operation, codenamed Claire, to gather evidence against users and dealers in Calne and Chippenham.

Mr Adams, 46, a supervisor at Deceuninck, on the Portmarsh Industrial Estate, said: "We got our daughter back, the Lindsey that we lost all those years ago when she started taking drugs. She looked great and she'd filled out and she was really chatty.

"She was tired but she was getting her emotions back and becoming her bubbly self again, how she used to be before she started on the stuff. It can't have been easy for her going through the agony of cold turkey.

"When she came back there was still that nagging feeling has someone seen her? Are they slipping her something? It's hard trying to build up trust again but everything was in place and it was going really well.

"The list of charges went on and on I couldn't even look up. It went on forever, it was a complete shock."

Miss Adams had tried to give up heroin twice before, but only managed to stay clean for a week. Then three-months-ago she told her parents she was leaving Calne to kick the habit for good.

She went to Chelmsford, in Essex, and lived in a flat with a recovering addict, ringing her parents almost every day. When her mother answered the doorbell seven weeks later she found the daughter she thought she had lost standing smiling in the doorway.

Miss Adams' brothers Stuart, 22, and Alex, 15, had grown to hate their sister as her habit tore the family apart, but Mr and Mrs Adams said this time was different. She moved back home where the family could see her determination to beat heroin and they rallied round to help her.

Mr Adams, said: "She had to abide by our rules and she agreed because she knew they were there to help her stay clean. We said we didn't want her going out during the day or night and she wasn't allowed any money. Anything she wanted we bought for her and that was going to go on and on for a year or however long it took.

"She was worried about coming back to Calne because she knew all she had to do was leave the house and she knew exactly where she could get it.

"But everything was going great, there were a couple of scary moments, but we were learning to trust each other again. She's an addict for life, but things were going really well."

Miss Adams got a job, helping her mother who works as a housekeeper at Deceuninck. She did so well that when the company's receptionist went on holiday for two weeks she was asked to fill in for her.

Deceuninck knew Miss Adams had always wanted to learn to drive and the family were discussing with the company the possibility of paying her in blocks of driving lessons instead of cash as an incentive for staying clean.

The family are still in shock but have all written to Lindsey to tell her they are still there for her and will visit her in prison in Wootton-under-Edge.

They are dreading going to crown court where Miss Adams will be sentenced because they are concerned a long jail sentence could set her back.

Mr Adams believes she is better off at home but said he had warned his daughter that her past would catch up with her in the end.