Dealer left heroin in taxi

Last updated 05:39, Friday, 04 July 2008

A DRUG dealer who left a supply of heroin on the back seat of a late night taxi went out on his bike looking for it as soon as he realised what he had done, Carlisle Crown Court heard yesterday.

When Ross Millar eventually spotted the taxi driver he flagged him down and told him about the two packages he had left in the car.

“If I don’t find them I will get my legs broken,” he said. “To be honest, mate, it was drugs.”

By that time the taxi driver had already contacted the police after finding the “suspicious” parcels on the seat.

The court heard that Millar, of Howard Place, Carlisle, intended to sell the heroin in £10 deals on the street to pay off the big-time suppliers to whom he owed money.

He could have made around £900 if he had sold it all.

Millar pleaded guilty to possessing the class A drug with intent to supply it.

He also pleaded guilty to possessing amphetamine and cannabis for his own use after a small amount of it was found on him when he was strip searched at the city’s police station.

In mitigation, defence barrister Alison Whalley said Millar was a heroin addict who had been in debt to drug dealers for many years.

She said he would have sold the drug only to people who were already heroin users.

Millar was jailed for three years.