The Scheme’s Marvin Baird jailed after being caught with heroin

The scheme star marvin baird has been jailed for 18 months after being caught with heroin in a police raid.

Baird, 38, was in bed when officers smashed open the front door of his flat and found 20 wraps of the Class A drug under a duvet.

He and an unnamed female were both handcuffed at the scene in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, the town’s sheriff court heard.

He admitted possessing heroin with intent to supply in December and has been in custody since then.

The drugs were worth around £240 and were mostly split into “tenner bags”. Neil Mcpherson, defending, said Baird had a criminal record but was “suddenly propelled into the spotlight and became something of a cause celebre because of a certain TV programme”.

He added: “He was in the business of supplying to a close group of friends and it wasn’t something he was making a particularly large amount of money from.”

When clean and sober, Bairdwas articulate, intelligent and attractive, Mr Mcpherson added.

Jailing Baird, Sheriff David Hall told him he had a lengthy and varied criminal record and added: “There is no alternative other than a custodial sentence.”

Baird shot to fame in the hit BBC TV docusoap which featured then girlfriend Dayna Mclaughlan and Bullet the dog.