View Full Version : Wick Heroin Dealer Sentenced To Five Years
dragonfly
08-Feb-08, 17:35
great to see scum like this being caught and convicted - hopefully he won't be out for the best part of his 5 years!
Report here (http://caithness.org/police/index.htm)
Have you got a link for this or was it in the "Groat". Never heard about this.
Have to say I am pleased though.
BBC News on line
Noticed he got 5 years - time they also seized any dealers/couriers assets - house, cars, bank accounts, tvs, etc, one way of making them think twice about passing this habit on.
Hit them where it hurts and where they understand - their pocket.
Only trouble is don't they get about 50% time off for good behaviour as the prisons are so full - so really that is only 2 1/2 years at the most.
Tighsonas4
08-Feb-08, 19:07
DRUGS
they cant hit them hard enough on this. they have have no regard for
the consequences this can have and couldnt care less as been already said strip them of any assets they may have already made as well
tony
5 years isn't enough!!!!!!!!!!!![disgust]
Valerie Campbell
08-Feb-08, 19:27
Short term fix is jail. Long term, who knows? It's supply and demand. Who remembers the Zammo storyline from Grange Hill? He started off sniffing glue and ended up on heroin. If people are depressed, have low self-esteem, etc they'll turn to drugs or drink, which is another drug really. It's human nature. But if people stopped paying the money for their fix, that would surely make a difference because profits for the fat cats would disappear and the trade would be no longer profitable. I just so hope that my children don't get involved with drugs. All we can do as parents is warn them and educate them. But we can't live their lives for them. It's a tough one.
percy toboggan
08-Feb-08, 19:36
He will be out in three, assuming he keeps his nose clean.
Then he'll be back doing what he knows best!!
Scum like this should be injected with all the heroin that they are caught with. They want to take drugs then give them what they want all in 1 go. (You can probably tell I hate drug dealers).
Its on the front page of caithness org.
He will be out in three, assuming he keeps his nose clean.And his arteries.;)
i hope the guy gets help for his addiction then he wouldna need to come out the nick and start dealing again(if he does)
hell of a thing heroin addiction!!!
i hope the guy gets help for his addiction then he wouldna need to come out the nick and start dealing again(if he does)
hell of a thing heroin addiction!!!
I don't really know if he was an addict or just a peddlar of death.
5 years not long enough. Think of all the lives he affected dealing drugs.
About time something like this happened. Some of the smaller fish seem to swim around under the noses of the police with complete impunity. Most people know who they are, so how do they go on operating as if the law did not exist
This is only one "small fish" in a big sea. Taking someone as young and raw as this out of the equation will make little if any difference. No doubt by now the big boys will have recruited another gullible idiot desperate to step into his shoes and gain a bit of credability as well as the money. Its sad to see just how big an impact drugs has had on Pultenytown. Its changed the whole area.
To clean up your area why do you not contact crimestoppers and leave information about dealers when, what and where you know about them.
Nobody need know who you are but if enough folk do make contact it will clean up the area and you will not be so frightened about your children getting offered substances.
The only way is to fight back from the home situations, drive them out of the area - neighbours and families unite against dealers.
I couldn't agree more Pat. To get work I have moved away from Caithness and live in Fife, heroin abuse and the problems that follow from that (young people dying from overdoses, young people in ruining their lives commiting croime to get drugs etc), have caused big problems down here, I hope that the public, police and courts get together and stamp it out in Caithness.
Link to Crimestoppers:
http://www.crimestoppers-uk.org/ (http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://www.crimestoppers-uk.org/)
Tel: 0800 555 111
Link to the story is at:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/highlands_and_islands/7235387.stm (http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/highlands_and_islands/7235387.stm)
Penelope Pitstop
09-Feb-08, 16:53
Quote from above bbc link:
"Det Sgt Steve MacDonald said tackling drugs in Caithness and Sutherland was a strategic priority. "
Did he mean a priority after their easy target .......the motorist......
5 years for drug dealing...........far too lenient in my opinion. When he comes out he'll have learnt even more tricks.
It's his children I feel sorry for, they are the other victims of his crime.
Is the first heroin dealer that has been charged and found guilty in Caithness? I'm sure there is plenty of info on others - what chances them being given a spell at HM pleasure?
It's his children I feel sorry for, they are the other victims of his crime.
He obviously doesn`t think much of his children,or he wouldn`t have been a user or dealer of drugs.
I don't really know if he was an addict or just a peddlar of death.
His mum told me last year that he was an addict.
I was just thinking it does seem that long ago that we were having a discussion along this lines about his uncle. Only hope the chain is broken and his own kids don't go down the same line.
He obviously doesn`t think much of his children,or he wouldn`t have been a user or dealer of drugs.
His mum told me last year that he was an addict.
I was just thinking it does seem that long ago that we were having a discussion along this lines about his uncle. Only hope the chain is broken and his own kids don't go down the same line.
I think it would be good if you discussed this by pm initially. You could then report back to the main forum with fact. Fact is good..
Good advice Moira; this is a public forum and not the place to gossip about families who may be reading the messages......:confused
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