News / Man sold drugs to feed his habit
A SHETLAND man admitted selling drugs to feed his newly acquired heroin habit when he appeared at Lerwick Sheriff Court on Thursday.
Procurator fiscal Duncan Mackenzie told the court that 25 year old Matthew Smith, of 13 Grodians, had only recently become addicted to the Class A drug, but his habit had “quickly become quite aggressive and he is now well integrated into what we would call the local drugs scene”.
On Thursday Smith pled guilty to being concerned in the supply of the Class C drug diazepam after 900 pills worth 50p each were found in his possession in Lerwick and Scalloway on 8 September last year.
Smith also admitted being in possession of personal quantities of heroin at 38 Sycamore Crescent, Scalloway, on 2 July, and a small amount of methadone on the following day.
Charges of taking and driving away a car without the owner’s permission and driving without insurance at Sycamore Avenue and the Scord, in Scalloway on 3 December were also admitted.
The case was deferred for reports after defence agent Tommy Allan said that Smith had been prescribed the heroin substitute methadone by his GP and wanted to be placed on a drug treatment and testing order.
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