Fined for possessing £1000 of drugs

Police found cocaine and cannabis in Gary Cassidy’s home at 203 Wallace Street, Falkirk, on October 16 last year.

At Falkirk Sheriff Court last Thursday the 26-year-old who had admitted drug possession at an earlier appearance and had sentence deferred for background reports, was fined £900.

Defence lawyer Murray Aitken said Cassidy, a self-employed joiner, was an “intelligent man who knows he has done wrong.”

Mr Aitken added: “He had struggled to come to terms with the loss of a younger sibling in 2015, but now no longer involved in the drug scene.”

Sheriff John Mundy had said sentencing options were a fine or unpaid work. Cassidy offered to pay the penalty at £200 a month.