A feared drug vendor is going through jail after being convicted over a £17,000 heroin haul after the drug was present in his pants.
Fraser McKerracher, 30, was snared at his flat after being launched from jail for stabbing a person and dousing him in bleach.
He had been jailed for 5 years and 4 months in July 2011 over the assault. He was additionally made the topic of a four-year prolonged sentence, which noticed him monitored in the neighborhood after his launch, which was attributable to expire on June 27, 2020.
On June 3, 2020, simply weeks earlier than the prolonged sentence got here to an finish, he was discovered with half a gram of heroin stashed inside his pants. Officers raiding his house in Oban, Argyll and Bute, additionally discovered a stash of the drug hidden behind a shower panel within the toilet.
Tick lists, displaying what he was owed by prospects, have been additionally discovered on the espresso desk in the lounge, as was £680 in money. He pleaded responsible to a drug dealing cost when he appeared within the dock at Dumbarton Sheriff Courtroom over the offence.
A cost that he’d additionally been in possession of cocaine with intent to produce on the day in query was dropped. Prosecutor David McDonald instructed the courtroom that officers discovered a polythene bag containing blue wraps in McKerracher’s underwear.
Mr McKerracher stated, ‘it’s 9 wraps, it’s a half gram’. The courtroom heard officers additionally found a roll of cling movie, digital scales, packets of sandwich luggage and blue polythene bag minimize offs, which have been just like the packages discovered inside McKerracher’s pants.
4 cellphones have been additionally seized by officers, and a provider bag containing 400g of heroin, which had McKerracher’s fingerprint on it, was discovered stashed behind the bathtub. The courtroom heard that if bought as packaged, the medication may have value £8,180, however may fetch £17,570 if bulked out into particular person £10 offers. Sheriff Maxwell Hendry was instructed the medication discovered have been “extreme for private use” and have been “indicative of onward sale and provide” as they'd been break up into smaller offers.
Sentencing was adjourned for background studies to be ready and McKerracher is because of return to the dock subsequent month. McKerracher and confederate Craig Duffy attacked Michael MacDougall to his extreme harm in Oban in February 2011. The Excessive Courtroom in Glasgow heard Mr MacDougall suffered greater than 20 wounds to his physique after the pair went to his house. The sufferer was sleeping when the 2 attackers woke him up by knocking on his door.
McKerracher was incensed he had not answered it sooner, and so they rained punches on his head and physique as he retreated to his lounge, the place McKerracher introduced out a kitchen knife with an eight-inch blade and Duffy pulled out a smaller blade. They stabbed him a number of occasions on the pinnacle and physique, then poured a bottle of bleach over him earlier than fleeing. Duffy, who was simply 17 on the time, was jailed for 3 years and 9 months for his half within the offence.
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