SENIOR judges say a Bulwell mum who hid a sawn-off shotgun used in a drive-by shooting under her bed deserves her five-year sentence.
Kirsty Brealey, 23, of Broad Eadow Road, was sentenced at Nottingham Crown Court in November last year.
Yesterday, three judges at London's Appeal Court rejected her claim that the sentence was too long.
Brealey was caught with cocaine in her handbag before police found the weapon she had concealed for a criminal friend after it was used to blast a house during a drug feud.
While pregnant, she had admitted possession of a firearm and possession of a class A drug with intent to supply.
Mr Justice Simon yesterday said Brealey was caught with around 100 grams of cocaine, split into dealer bags beside scales in her handbag, when police raided the home of Declan Madigan, in December 2011. Police searched her home and found a sawn-off shotgun, the appeal judge said.
Madigan, 27, of Lyle Close, Kimberley, was sentenced to 11 years for ordering an attacker to fire shots at a house in Aspley. He pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess a firearm with intent to endanger life, using a person to hide a firearm and drugs charges.
Brealey waited over a year to be sentenced and her lawyers argued her punishment did not consider the needs of her baby.
Appeal judge Mr Justice Simon, said: "The difficulty is that, in his very full sentencing remarks, the judge made it plain he had considered them and taken them into account."