An accounting student has been spared jail after giving cocaine to a 14-year-old.
After taking the Class A drug the teenager immediately suffered a fit and had to be rushed to hospital.
Yesterday Daniel Campbell, from near Inverness, was sentenced at Elgin Sheriff Court for giving the youngster the illicit substance.
The 21-year-old was left alone in an Elgin home with the teen on March 12.
Shortly before 2pm the youngster saw Campbell with the cocaine and “asked” if she could have some.
Fiscal Alex Swain said: “The accused prepared two lines of cocaine for her.
“She immediately became unwell and started fitting. The accused phoned an ambulance and tried to stick his fingers down her throat to make her sick.”
The teenager was taken to Dr Gray’s Hospital by ambulance where Campbell told staff she had taken cocaine.
Police later spoke to the girl who told them that she asked for the drug because “she had never tried it before”.
Defence solicitor Iain Maltman said: “Obviously this has been a very shocking experience, firstly for the complainer but also for him.
“He acted in the right manner by phoning an ambulance and was honest about what had happened.”
Yesterday, Campbell, who studies at UHI in Inverness, was also sentenced for careless driving.
The student was a passenger when police pulled over his Volkswagen Golf for suspected speeding on Reiket Lane in Elgin on October 10 last year.
However, fearing the car was about to be seized, he got into the driver’s seat and drove away from the officers shortly after 1am.
Police followed the car to Forres where they lost it after Campbell went to extreme lengths to evade them.
Miss Swain added: “Upon seeing the police the accused immediately turned off the car’s headlights and turned left on to Nairn Road and made off at speed and towards Pilmuir Road, mounting a kerb on the way.”
Sheriff Eilidh MacDonald said: “The drug charge is an extremely serious matter, I’m sure you appreciate that.”
Campbell, of Smithton, was banned from driving for six months, ordered to do 160 hours of unpaid work and placed under supervision for a year after admitting charges of supplying a controlled drug and careless driving.
