A MUM-OF-THREE was caught dealing heroin in order to “support her family”.

Michelle Stevenson was asleep in bed with her partner when cops raided her home looking for the Class A drug.

She shouted to officers “There’s stuff in the room but it’s nothing to do with him.”

Police uncovered two bags of heroin inside a black cigarette case in the bedroom.

During the August 18 search last year, which also woke up Stevenson’s three teenaged children, cops found mixed bills worth £2190 as well as the 14g of drugs.

Stevenson, from Cranhill, was interviewed by police immediately after the raid and held her hands up for supplying the drug.

The depute fiscal told Glasgow Sheriff Court Stevenson said she had: “Become involved in crime to generate income for her family.”

The court heard her children are 19, 18 and 14 with the youngest child being disabled.

Stevenson’s defence brief pointed to her successful parenting, telling the court her two older are doing well, and said she was a first offender.

He said: “The family circumstances are correct.

“This lady is a first offender at the age of 39 with two adult children.

“She has a 19-year-old son who has recently qualified as a butcher.

“That is indicative of her dedicated parenting skills.

“Her 18-year-old child is at college while she has a 14-year-old who is disabled.”

Sheriff Allan Findlay told Stevenson her crime was taken seriously by the court.

He said: “This is a serious matter.

“The supply of Class A drugs is certainly taken very seriously by this court.”

Stevenson was placed on a Community Payback Order and told she will have to carry out 270 hours of unpaid work within nine months.

She will also have to pay back £2190 within three months under a confiscation order.