A TWICE convicted student drug dealer who flouted unpaid work by forging an excusal letter has now begged a sheriff to end her electronic tagging curfew.

Angelene Few had been facing jail last September for the 'spectacular' breach but was spared a custodial sentence on condition she stays in her flat between 7pm and 7am every day for a year.

Now Few, 20 — who continued selling cannabis after pleading guilty to the first offence — wants to be free of the tag, which would allow her to start going out at night again.

Her lawyer told Greenock Sheriff Court: "There have been some stressful incidents ongoing regarding possible eviction, but she is taking direction from a housing legal services agency.

"She has been on a restriction of liberty order and has complied fully.

"She has asked me to ask the court to consider bringing that to an end.

"If she is evicted she will have nowhere to go and she will be in breach of the order and this is concerning for her."

But Sheriff Michael Higgins refused to let her off the tag — a decision which led Few to roll her eyes as she left the dock.

The sheriff told her: "If you are in fact evicted then you can engage with the court [afterwards]."

Few is currently carrying out a 300-hour unpaid work order as well as the tagging restriction, which were both imposed as direct alternatives to jail.

She breached the original community payback order by falsifying a letter purporting to be from West College Scotland in order to get out of doing the work.

Few, of Lyle Street, avoided a custodial sentence after the court heard that she would be at risk of becoming a 'vulnerable person' if she was locked up.

She was caught selling cannabis around Greenock for profit from her red-coloured Ford Ka and police later found a 'tick list' of customers in her diary and more than £2,500 in cash.

Few was caught for a second time with £800 worth of the drug.

She is due back in court on May 20 for a further progress review hearing.