Caught with heroin in city centre street

A Perth man, caught with £40 worth of heroin in a city street, was fined £320 when he appeared at the Sheriff Court.

Thirty-eight-year-old George Stephen, of Drummond Crescent, was stopped by two police officers in Marshall Place on November 2 last year.

When he was searched, 0.4 grammes of the Class A drug were seized.

Solicitor David Holmes conceded that his client has a“considerable record.”

He had been given the drug a couple of days previously by another unnamed person.

Stephen was now on a methadone prescription, added the lawyer.

The accused, who admitted having the drug, was allowed to pay the fine at £30 a month.

And a not guilty plea was accepted to a second charge of being in possession of cocaine.