Two people who supplied the MDMA which resulted in the death of a father-of-two avoided jail yesterday.
Kevin Armour, who would have been 30 last month, died on November 1, 2015.
At Oban Sheriff Court yesterday, Carrie Robertson, 23, was ordered to carry out the maximum 300 hours community service.
Sheriff John Herald told her that she would receive no discount for pleading guilty. He said: “The very fact that you are not going to custody is the discount.”
Last night Mr Armour’s widow, Ashley Armour, said: “Kevin was a loving husband and father.”
Robertson, of MacDougall Court, Dunollie, Oban, previously pleaded guilty to being concerned in the supply of MDMA on October 31 and November 1, 2015.
Arno Redlihs, 19, now working as a chef and living in Falkirk, denied the charge and went on trial last month, but Sheriff Herald found him guilty of being concerned in the supply of MDMA. He was fined £1,000.
The court previously heard that Mr Armour died at the home of a friend in Oban.
He had been taking MDMA, commonly known as ecstasy, with two of his friends.
Following his death the men named their dealer and police obtained a warrant to search Robertson’s home. They found Redlihs in bed at the property.
Robertson admitted that herbal cannabis, a piece of cannabis resin and bags similar to the one in which the ecstasy had been sold were hers when police officers found them in her flat.
They also found £720 in a jewellery box and £690 was found in a black box in a wardrobe.
Robertson and Redlihs were in a relationship at the time, but have since separated. Robertson is now a mother, the court heard.
Solicitor Laura McManus said Robertson suffers from bi-polar disorder and at the time of the offence she was living a “party lifestyle” and not taking her medication. But since learning of her pregnancy she had turned her life around.
Kevin McGuinness said Redlihs had been assessed as of low risk of re-offending.
Sheriff Herald told the pair: “I am well aware of the circumstances and the consequences of your actions on that particular day. That takes this beyond the usual case. I extend my sympathy to the family of the person who lost his life.”
The sheriff said it was with hesitation that he decided not to send Robertson to jail, saying he was taking into account her baby and the fact that she appeared to have sorted her life out.
