NEWPORT mum Carole Pringle says she can't wait for her daughter to come home after serving a jail sentence for a robbery to feed her drug habit.

But she has vowed to shop her own child is she ever uses drugs again.

Two months ago, the Argus revealed how Mrs Pringle, 55, of Maesglas, caught her daughter injecting heroin and watched her get locked up for four years for an armed robbery committed to pay for her next fix.

But Mrs Pringle says she won't see her daughter go through that drugs hell again.

Twenty-nine-year-old Sarah, 29, is to be released from prison in Staffordshire on February 21, and her mum is determined to keep her off drugs.

She said: "I'm excited and scared about Sarah coming home. She knows the house rules, which are very important. I told her that if she takes any sort of drug - whether it be cannabis or whatever - then I will report her to the probation service and she will go back to prison for two years.

"Don't get me wrong, I love all my children and I love Sarah very much, and I'm proud of how she has turned herself around, but I'm warning her for her own good. She knows I'm very strict on things like that."

But Mrs Pringle is confident that this time her daughter will stay away from drugs.

She said: "Having spoken to her, I really don't think she will go back on drugs but I have to be realistic as well because these things to do happen when people come out of jail."

Their reunion will be very emotional for Mrs Pringle as she hasn't seen Sarah since last June. "At the moment she is my little girl again. She is not how she was when she on drugs - she is my daughter again but she wasn't my daughter for years."

In a letter written from jail, Sarah, who is now 'clean', urged people not to dabble with drugs.