Heroin dealer gets six months

A man was caught supplying class A drugs from his Perth flat.

Donald Stevenson was found with prebagged wraps of heroin when police raided the property in April this year.

Perth Sheriff Court heard the drugs had been divided into “deals” worth £20 each and would have had a total street value of £260,

Depute fiscal Tina Dickie told the court police were acting on a search warrant when they went to Stevenson’s home on April 27.

“Inside the address they found 13 packages of wrapped diamorphine,” she said.

“Officers took a stock report and it is their opinion that the 13 packages would each have an illicit value of £20. It is their opinion that the packages were deals for onward supply.”

Stevenson, of High Street, Perth, admitted being concerned in the supply of diamorphine from the flat on April 27 2017.

Solicitor Pauline Cullerton, acting for the 38-year-old, said he was serving a 30-month jail sentence for another offence but accepted he was likely to receive a further custodial sentence.

Jailing Stevenson, Sheriff James MacDonald said: “What you were involved in was in relation to class A drugs.

“Even if you were not already serving a custodial sentence at the moment, the circumstances mean a prison sentence is the only disposal.”

He imposed a six-month prison sentence.