Pupil had drugs in school library
Brown admits charge of supplying LSD
A top scholar who created a fantasy persona as a drug dealer to get himself kicked out of a Stirling high school after fearing he might undershoot his teachers’ stellar expectations, is facing jail after offering free samples in the sixth form library.
Dilon Brown, now a computer programmer, found the pressure too much for him at St Modan’s High School and dreamed up the idea of drug dealing in a deliberate bid to get himself excluded.
He had business cards printed, wrote out a price list, carried drug samples in his blazer pockets, and deliberately approached sixth form girls he knew would be shocked and report him.
His plan succeeded, he was suspended, but he also found himself in Stirling Sheriff Court.
Brown, now 20, of Woodside Road, Stirling, pleaded guilty to possessing cocaine, cannabis and Ecstasy and supplying LSD at the school.
He had originally been accused of dealing all four drugs.
The charges, which date back to September 2016, took nearly a year to come to court and another year to agree pleas which were accepted by the prosecution on Tuesday.
The court heard that on September 9, 2016, Brown, then 18, had walked into the library saying ‘I do, I do’ before handing another pupil a business card.
A 17 year-old girl revising at a desk overheard the exchange, got up, and asked for a card herself.
He handed her a white card with the words ‘Guilty Pleasures’ on it.
Prosecutor Lindsay Brooks said: “It had a picture of a woman dressed provocatively, and a phone number.”
Brown told the sixth form girl, “That’s the last one I’ve got. I’ve free samples.”
Mrs Brooks said: “She asked him what he had been showing other pupils, and he said business cards.
“She asked if it was true he had drugs and he replied, ‘Yeah, obviously’, and laughed.”
Brown told the girl, “I can get you anything you want”.
Adding, ‘I’ll show you’ he pulled out a bag of Ecstasy tablets, a bag of cocaine, and a bag of LSD tabs from his blazer pockets.
Holding out the bag of cocaine, he said: “This stuff is great. I keep it on me in case I’m going to faint.”
Mrs Brooks said: “The witness asked him if he came to school on drugs, and he replied: ‘Yes, mostly on speed’.
“He told her he’d sell her an ‘Eccy’ for £6.”
He added: “I do this because I know lots of the stuff is dangerous and I know this is safe.”
Mrs Brooks said: “He was quite open about it. She asked him if he was scared he might get caught and he replied: ‘No, I’m on the autistic spectrum so they can’t do anything and my house is clean’.”
The depute fiscal said: “The witness said he seemed happy and smug about what he was doing. She told the headmaster.
“He was also approaching other pupils and making comments about being able to obtain drugs and such like.”
Three days later Brown approached another girl pupil in a Monday morning maths class. Saying, “I hear you go to lots of parties” he handed her a business card with an LSD tab taped to the back. He added: “It’s the best in town.” Mrs Brooks said: “She also went to the headmaster.”
The school contacted police, and Brown, a first offender, was found to have £250 of drugs, herbal cannabis, Ecstasy tablets, LSD and cocaine in his blazer pocket, a price list in his trouser pocket, and business cards.
Ken Dalling, defending, said: “Mr Brown’s presentation as drug dealer whilst he himself was a pupil at St Modans High School was a pretence.
“The episode was entirely designed to get Mr Brown excluded from the world of education, and it was successful in that end.”
The solicitor said Canada-born Brown had moved to Stirling with his mother, and had been diagnosed at St Modans with Asperger’s syndrome.
He passed several Highers, aimed to do computer studies at university, but had suffered “difficulties” from the start of the term.
Mr Dalling said: “In essence the school were expecting more of him than he could deliver, on the basis of his Highers. In that context he developed the persona of a drug dealer that would get him excluded from school.
“He went so far as to get business cards printed but it was fantasy. The drugs he had were simply props in this game.
“He was quite careful in targeting other pupils he thought would report him, and that’s what happened.
“His only gain was emotional release.”
Sheriff Alison McKay deferred sentence until October 15 for reports.
She told Brown: “It’s a very unusual case but I’m not as convinced as your solicitor is that the circumstances and your intentions detract from the seriousness of actual supply of a class-A drug in a school setting.”