A person has been remanded in custody for supplying inmates at HMP Perth with medication - together with diamorphine - by throwing them over the jail wall.
Jack Craig Boyd was taken away to a cell after sheriff Gillian Wade stated she was not ready to permit him his liberty after he admitted to worrying within the provide of medicine.
The 20-year-old pled responsible to throwing packages containing quite a lot of medication over the partitions of the Edinburgh Highway jail 3 times throughout the house of six months.
He admitted chucking two wraps into the jail on March 19, 2019 containing round six-and-a-half grammes of diamorphine, a category A drug, stated to have a road worth of round £300.
Fiscal depute Alistair McDermid knowledgeable Perth Sheriff Courtroom final week the quantity might fetch as a lot as £1500 throughout the jail system.
Boyd, who's from Coatbridge, additionally admitted throwing 4 wraps of hashish, a category B drug, into the jail on the identical day. The quantity was stated to have a jail worth of round £500.
He additional admitted chucking round 400 tablets of etizolam, a drug prescribed for insomnia, into the jail on February 4 or 5, 2019 and round one other 200 tablets of the identical drug on March 19.
Mr McDermid stated the drugs had been solely price someplace between 50p and £1 every underneath regular circumstances however an quantity like 400 might fetch as much as £1000 in jail.
Lastly Boyd additional admitted to throwing round eight grammes of estazolam, a drug prescribed for sleeping issues, over the partitions of the jail on July 24.
Defence solicitor Pauline Cullerton instructed the courtroom Boyd, of Woodside Avenue, Coatbridge, was unemployed and in receipt of state advantages.
Referring to his admission of worrying within the provide of a category A drug sheriff Wade stated she might see “no profit” in letting Boyd stroll out of courtroom final Thursday.
She ordered jail officers to take him into custody and known as for background stories to be ready on him so he will be sentenced later this 12 months.