Man stashed £270,000 of heroin at home to pay off debt
Police spotted an associate of Scott Gair leaving his house in Falkirk with a rucksack.
A man who stashed £270,000 of heroin at his house to pay off a debt has been jailed.
Police caught an associate of Scott Gair leaving his Falkirk home carrying a rucksack in December 2016.
Inside the rucksack they found a safe containing a large amount of heroin.
Gair told police he had agreed to store the drugs in return for a debt being settled.
The 26-year-old pleaded guilty to being concerned in the supply of heroin and three driving charges at the High Court in Glasgow.
Judge Lord Beckett told Gair only a custodial sentence was appropriate and jailed him for five years.
Derick Nelson said Gair had "great trepidation" of being locked up, adding: "Those who he did owe money to have made threats to him in the intervening period."