Couple caught with cocaine ask for time to spend with newborn A couple facing jail after being caught with cocaine worth £100,000 have pleaded for more time to spend with their newborn baby. On Wednesday, the High Court in Edinburgh heard how a police raid on their home in Dalkeith, Midlothian, seized equipment for cutting and packaging cocaine for street sales. Jo-Anna Wallace, 21, and partner Lee Middlemass, 25, pleaded guilty to being concerned in the supply of the drug during a week in October last year. They are due to be sentenced next month when background reports have been prepared. Defence advocate Victoria Young said Wallace had given birth to a daughter nine weeks ago and asked if she could remain on bail until her next court hearing. Solicitor advocate George Pollock, for Middlemass, added: "Allow him some limited time with the new member of his family." Judge Lord Pentland left the bench for some minutes to consider the requests, then returned to say that "with some considerable hesitation" he would allow the couple, both first offenders, to remain free meantime. Advocate depute Adrian Cottam, prosecuting, told how a tip-off sent police to a top floor flat in Thornybank Square, Dalkeith. He said: "During the search the police found within one of the bedrooms a hydraulic press and metal plates. The press was of the type used to compress powder into blocks. In another bedroom they found bundles of notes amounting to £7195. More than a kilo of cocaine was also uncovered, much of it well above the normal purity for street deals along with a chemical used to dilute or "cut" cocaine. Police also found scales and plastic bags. Mr Cottam said if sold on the streets at average purity the stash might fetch as much as £104,300. The prosecutor said it was also accepted that Middlemass was "the principal actor" and Wallace was simply allowing the flat to be used - although benefiting from any profit made by her partner.