Edinburgh drugs bust nets grandmother
A 38-year-old grandmother has been jailed for over three-and-a-half years after being caught couriering £200,000 worth of cocaine from Liverpool to Edinburgh.
Wendy Young, 38, of Niddrie House Gardens, was arrested on the A702 between Biggar and Edinburgh on 5 December last year. Her rented Chrysler Grand Voyager 4x4 was carrying almost four kilos of the class-A drug.
Upon her arrest she told police, “I’m an arsehole,” and said, “I only did it as we were hard up for Christmas and we were desperate."
Young’s lawyer, Jim Keegan, told the court that she was married with three children and was a grandmother. Neither she nor her husband were in employment and the family received benefits.
She was to receive £1,000 for smuggling the drugs. Keegan said: “She embarked on a foolish escapade. This was prompted by the need for Christmas money."
She was sentenced on 14 March at the High Court in Edinburgh to 44 months in prison having admitted to being concerned in the supply of cocaine.
The sentence was reduced from six years to three-and-a-half on account to her record of service to the community as a voluntary ambulance driver.
Last February, Victoria Baptist, mother-of-one, was sentenced to thirteen years in prison for her part in smuggling £3.5 million worth of South American cocaine into London and Edinburgh.
The drug was hidden inside camping equipment, absorbed into ground-sheets and mats, before being reconstituted within the UK.
Recorder Richard Smith QC said in passing sentence: "This is an example of how people with good backgrounds become ensnared in this despicable trade."
Also jailed on 14 March at the High Court in Glasgow was Marlon Browne, 22, who used a hollowed-out child’s car seat to smuggle nearly £100,000 worth of cocaine. The court heard how he had taken a six month year-old child along with him to a drugs deal. He was also sentenced to 44 months.
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