A woman who was banned from 101 shops has been jailed for selling drugs to undercover police officers.

Hayley Battershill handed cocaine and heroin to officers taking part in Operation Vengeance, to clear drug dealers and suppliers from the streets of Eastbourne.

Battershill, 29, who appeared at Hove Crown Court yesterday, was sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison after admitting three charges of supplying Class A drugs.

Warwick Tatford, prosecuting, said: "An undercover officer posing as a buyer asked Battershill if she could sort him out with some white, or cocaine, and some brown - heroin."

She and a man known as Ginger went with the officer to a park in St Anne's Road, Eastbourne.

Battershill, of Pevensey Road, Eastbourne, told the officer to wait on a bench while she went to get the drugs.

When she returned a few minutes later she handed over three small rocks of crack cocaine, worth £60.

Mr Tatford said she sold the same officer heroin after he approached her in Seaside and then took him to a house in Langney Road, Eastbourne, on June 3.

Frank Winslett, defending, said Battershill had been addicted to drugs for eight years.

He said she realised she had crossed the boundary between using and supplying and that she would be sent to prison.

Battershill was banned from 101 shops in Eastbourne after traders joined forces to collect evidence against her and last October received an anti-social behaviour order (Asbo).

The order excluded her for two years from stores in Eastbourne, where she had repeatedly been convicted of shoplifting to feed her drug habit.

She was also sent a letter by Eastbourne Business Crime Group, made up of shopkeepers and business owners, in July last year warning she would be banned from town shops because of her behaviour.

The group imposed its ban two months later after she was convicted of stealing water filters and causing criminal damage at Homebase in Lottbridge Drove.

It was reinforced when District Judge Paul Tain replaced an earlier community rehabilitation order with the Asbo.