Jail warning for drug dealer

A YOUNG Shetland man who now lives in Aberdeen has been told that he would almost certainly go to jail after he admitted supplying cannabis over a ten-month period.

Appearing before Lerwick Sheriff Court on Wednesday, sentence on Ross Gordon Lowe, with an address at 296 North Deeside Road, was deferred until 20 March for reports.

The 24 year old pled guilty to a charge of supplying the Class B drug from an address in Lerwick between 7 March 2011 and 31 January 2012.

The court heard how police had been able to track around 30 individual transactions after they had seized Lowe’s mobile phone when searching his home.

Defence solicitor Gregor Kelly said his client had supplied the drug to a close circle of friends and used the return to feed his own habit.

It had not been a commercial operation, he said, but Lowe now accepts that he had been a “cog in wheel” of the drug supply network.

Sheriff Philip Mann told Lowe that he should be under no illusion that there was a “pretty good chance” that he would end up with a custodial sentence.