Deport order for a Polish drugs dealer after jail time

A sheriff has ordered a Polish drug dealer be deported back to his homeland – after he has served a 29 month sentenced for peddling heroin.

Jacek Grzybowski, 29, whose address was given as Addiewell Prison, West Lothian, pled guilty at Airdrie Sheriff Court to selling the Class A drug in the car park of McDonald’s in Coatbridge, on March 13.

Grzybowski denied attempting to pervert the course of justice after allegedly giving a false name and address to police.

He also pled not guilty to being in possession of cocaine. These pleas were accepted by the Crown.

Prosecutor Agnes Meek told the court:“At half past midnight on March 13, police were in uniform patrol when they were informed by a member of the public that a man was in a car in Coatbridge dealing in drugs.

“Police saw the now accused in the driver’s seat. He was cautioned under the Misuse of Drugs Act, but ran off. He was apprehended a short time after and handcuffed.”

Officers found a sports bag in the boot of the car which contained bags of brown power which was later confirmed to be heroin. The combined weights of the bags totalled just under half-a-kilo, with a total street value of £8500.

Defence lawyer Eddie Robertson told the court: “He accepts custody is inevitable. In 2013 he received a lengthy period of imprisonment.

“He is a cocaine user. He had settled in Scotland but his new girlfriend left and took with her his life savings of £1000. He hopes to get repatriated back to Poland with no wish to return to the United Kingdom.”

Jailing Grzybowski, Sheriff Derek O’Carroll, told him, through an interpretor:“I will reduce the sentence from three years to 29 months because of your early plea. It will be backdated to March 14.”The sheriff will recommend to the Home Secretary Grzybowski be deported back to Poland at the end of his sentence.