Threw heroin fromcar

A motorist emptied two bags of white powder out of his car window during a police chase down the A9.

But traces of it were discovered on the steering wheel and in the footwell and were found to be heroin.

Perth Sheriff Court was told that police signalled for Andrew Snaddon to stop near Luncarty.

But he continued driving south and he was seen to empty the drugs out of the window.

He was arrested after stopping at a nearby set of traffic lights.

A police sniffer dog was brought in to check out the car and tests on traces of the white powder proved positive for heroin.

A lawyer for Snaddon said he had been at his mother’s holiday caravan and panicked when he spotted the police car behind him.

Snaddon, of Main Street, Lochgelly, was jailed for four months by Sheriff Derek Reekie.

He admitted attempting to pervert the course of justice in October 2016 and also having the class A drug.

He had previously been charged with having the heroin with intent to supply.

Snaddon admitted a lengthy list of previous convictions, including drugs offences.