A lady is behind bars after nearly a million road valium tablets have been present in her bed room.
A courtroom heard this week that the illicit haul was value as much as £498,000.
Natalie Walker, 38, admitted worrying within the provide of etizolam at her house in Valley Court docket, Hamilton, on April 8 final 12 months.
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Jennifer McCabe, prosecuting, instructed Hamilton Sheriff Court docket that police found the massive cache after getting a warrant to go looking the two-bedroom flat in relation to a different matter.
She mentioned: "Quite a few vacuum-sealed baggage of tablets have been present in a bed room.
"Walker mentioned she consumed medication and admitted holding the tablets as a favour for which she would obtain fee of an unknown quantity.
"She refused to call the particular person she was holding them for."
In complete there have been 995,760 tablets, value £99,576 wholesale and as much as £497,880 if offered on the road.
Walker, now of East Netherton Road, Killmarnock, has no earlier convictions.
Her solicitor, Sandy Morrison, mentioned she is "reasonable" about her destiny, given the excessive worth of the tablets.
Sheriff Colin Dunipace deferred sentence till Might for background experiences and Walker, who had been on bail, was remanded in custody.
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