FOUR men and a woman, including a father and daughter, from Leigh have been jailed for a total of 20 years and four months for supplying heroin and amphetamines.

Police had put the five under covert surveillance and watched as they ferried drugs to each other and sold them to addicts.

The longest sentence of five years was handed down to heroin seller Paul Giles, 38, of Eden Grove.

Father and daughter John, aged 56, and Lisa Grainey, who shared a house in Tower Grove, Leigh, were jailed for three years 11 months each for selling heroin.

Michael Bradley, 31 of Chapel Street, received a four year sentence for supplying heroin and amphetamines and David Heyes, 34, of no fixed address, was jailed for three and-a-half years for supplying heroin.

Bolton Crown Court heard how Lisa Grainey, aged 27, stole £8,700 in just under six weeks from a woman suffering from multiple sclerosis and spent it all buying heroin.

Grainey had befriended Katherine Hampson and got to know the pin numbers for her bank cards and systematically drained two accounts until they were overdrawn.

She and the other four all admitted a number of drug supplying offences after originally planning denial and a trial.

Charges were dropped against a sixth defendant, Kelly Waterworth, aged 18, of Vernon Street, Leigh.

Judge Derwin Hope told Lisa Grainey that stealing £8,700 from an elderly woman suffering from multiple sclerosis: "was a mean and nasty offence and a gross breach of trust".

CCTV footage

Grainey denied the offence but CCTV footage showed her making several withdrawals at the HSBC bank in Bradshawgate, Leigh.

Giles had sold heroin and methadone to an undercover policeman on several occasions. When he was arrested police searched his house at Eden Grove in Leigh and found wraps of heroin, £85 in cash and three mobile phones.

Giles and Heyes were under covert observation by undercover police who also tapped their phones. John and Lisa Grainey, along with Heyes and Giles, were all frequently involved in selling heroin to fund their addictions.

Bradley was seen on one occasion to transport 25 wraps of heroin subsequently found in a children's kinder egg on Grainey.

The prosecution said Heyes received drugs to sell to addicts on the streets of Leigh on behalf of Giles.

Heyes had also been seen by police leaving the house with small amounts of drugs in his hand and Bradley was spotted holding up amphetamines. Giles and Heyes were watched by police as they picked up money from the Graineys' house.

When police searched Tower Grove where the Graineys lived they found a list of names and phone numbers, phones, £30 cash and 25 wraps of heroin in a kinder egg.

The court heard Father of four Giles had no assets and just £5 in the bank when arrested.

John Grainey had convictions dating back many years for selling cannabis and

had become addicted to heroin when his daughter Lisa moved in with him.

David Heyes had been addicted to heroin since his teens and working on demolition sites for 12 years but had lost his job and his home.