News / Jail for heroin supply intent
A SHETLAND heroin addict was sentenced to four months in jail after admitting a charge of intending to supply the class-A drug.
Police officers found heroin packed in wraps and worth around £400 on Ralph Halcrow, of Brind, Cunningsburgh when they stopped and searched him in Lerwick on 16 February.
At Lerwick Sheriff Court on Thursday, defence solicitor Tommy Allan said his client had bought the drugs cheap to feed his own addiction, but knew that he might also supply others.
Pleading for leniency he said the value of drugs found on his 38-year-old client was relatively small.
Sheriff Philip Mann said it was his policy to send anybody guilty of supplying drugs to jail unless there were exceptional circumstances.
Meanwhile, Tingwall woman Claire Huntington escaped a jail term after she pled guilty to supplying cannabis to friends between 2 and 4 October last year.
Police found £900 worth of the class-B drug, packed in 45 individual wraps.
The 28-year-old, of Fairview, Walster, was ordered to carry out 120 hours of unpaid work as part of a community payback order.
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