Man, 50, jailed for drugs found in wall

A drug dealer whose stash sat hidden in a dry stone dyke “for years” until it was accidentally found by geocaching enthusiasts has been jailed for three years.

The pair discovered a black rucksack stuffed in a section of wall by a rural Angus road.

Thinking it was the object they were hunting in the game – which sees players use GPS co-ordinates to hunt hidden “caches” – they opened it up and found £24,000 of heroin.

Forensic analysis linked DNA found on the bags of the drug to Albert Ramsay.

Yesterday he appeared at Dundee Sheriff Court, where he was handed a

“They realised they had stumbled upon illicit drugs”

three-year jail term after admitting being concerned in the supply of the Class A drug at Omachie Farm, Kingennie on August 27 2016.

Fiscal depute Saima Rasheed told the court of the moment of discovery: “They immediately realised they had not found the cache but instead stumbled upon illicit drugs.”

Ramsay initially denied having been anywhere near the field and said he had no knowledge of the bags’s contents before pleading guilty on indictment.

For Ramsay, 50, of Hilltown Court in Dundee, solicitor advocate Jim Laverty said: “His recollection about it is somewhat hazy.

“His role in the operation was perhaps at the lower end but it is accepted that any person who becomes involved in the machinery of drugs supply will be imprisoned unless extraordinary circumstances apply.”

Sheriff Lorna Drummond QC told Ramsay: “This is a particularly serious offence because over £24,000 worth of heroin was involved.”