A drug dealing grandmother has been locked up for 50 months after police raided her home and found thousands of pounds of heroin.
The High Court in Edinburgh heard that this is the third time Lesley Moir, from Fraserburgh, has been convicted of drug trafficking.
Police carried out a raid on the 42-year-old’s West Road home after receiving information that drug dealing was taking place there.
She was found in the house and detained but a bid to interview her was abandoned as she was intoxicated and assessed as unfit for questioning.
Advocate depute Steven Borthwick said that during the search, on September 10 last year, drugs were found in bags, a Kinder egg and in Moir’s bra.
The prosecutor said a planner was also recovered in the living room.
“It was examined and found to contain notations using the initials ‘b’ and ‘w’ which are recognised as abbreviations for brown, referring to heroin, and white, referring to cocaine,” he said.
Mr Borthwick added: “Figures were associated with these notations, which give rise to the inference that this document was used as a ‘tick list’ which keeps track of the sums of money owed by various persons purchasing controlled drugs.”
Heroin with a street value of £3,080 was recovered by police along with £70 of cocaine. Scales found at the house were discovered to have traces of cocaine.
Crimes blamed on lockdown
Defence counsel David Moggach said: “She could not deal with the isolation of lockdown. It led to strain on her mental health. As she put it herself she ended up in ‘a dark place’.”
He told the court that Moir had complied with support to help her remain drug free following her release from a previous jail term.
But the arrival of Covid and the subsequent lockdown had severely restricted the support that was available.
Mr Moggach said she turned to drugs and drink again and allowed others she thought were friends to come to her home.
Moir earlier admitted being concerned in the supply of heroin and cocaine on September 10 last year.
As it was her third conviction for trafficking in heroin she faced a minimum sentence of seven years imprisonment.
But Mr Moggach submitted to judge Fiona Tait that in the circumstances of the case the court could use its discretion to impose a lesser penalty on Moir.
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