PA MediaA 67-year-old man caught delivering £144,000 of drugs agreed with the judge jailing him that he was “a bit old” for such crimes.
Jerome Vadon was stopped by police as he drove towards Aberdeen from London with boxes of cannabis.
The High Court in Edinburgh heard that police acting on information had pulled his car over on the A90 road at Temple of Fiddes, Fordoun, in Aberdeenshire, earlier this year.
Vadon was jailed for two years and four months.
Three cardboard boxes containing drugs were in the rear seat, and a further two were in the boot, with a total of 25kg of cannabis seized.
Vadon had been transporting the drugs for a fee of £1,000.
Defence counsel Neil Shand said Vadon had become homeless following the breakdown of a relationship.
He said he needed money to pay for accommodation and dental work but acknowledged that what he had done was unwise.
Vadon, a prisoner in HMP Grampian, admitted being concerned in the supply of drugs when he appeared at the court via a videolink before Lord Renucci.
‘No stranger to court’
The judge said to him: “You are a bit old for this are you not?”.
Vadon replied: “I am indeed.”
Lord Renucci said: “You are no stranger to the court, nor to the prison system.
“I am not going to lecture you Mr Vadon. You are now a man of some maturity, at 67 years of age. You will realise your actions have consequences for you. “
The judge said that he would have faced a 42-month sentence but that it would be reduced to 28 months following his early guilty plea.
