A drug courier who was spared jail after he was caught trafficking pounds 2.4 million worth of cocaine has been sentenced to three years' imprisonment by appeal judges.Graham Curran, 35, was ordered to carry out 225 hours unpaid work under a community payback order earlier this year after admitting being concerned in the supply of the Class A drug.The offence committed by Curran was aggravated by a link to serious organised crime.But the Crown challenged the sentence at the Court of Criminal Appeal in Edinburgh and judges quashed the original sentence and replaced it with a jail term. Don't miss the latest headlines from around Renfrewshire.
Sign up to our newsletters here. The Lord Justice Clerk, Lady Dorrian, said that Curran would have faced a "significantly longer" prison sentence but for an issue of comparative justice that arose because of sentencing in an associated case.Lady Dorrian, who heard the appeal with Lord Matthews and Lord Boyd of Duncansby, said they considered the original sentence chosen by the judge who dealt with Curran to be "inexplicable".She said that Curran was "a knowing courier" who had willingly engaged in crime for gain with very significant amounts of drugs involved.Curran, of Conisborough Road, Easterhouse, Glasgow, was seen taking part in the handover of the illegal haul to an associate in Paisley, in Renfrewshire.Allan Ferguson was seen parking a Transit van in Foxbar Crescent, in Paisley, before Curran arrived by car and handed over bags to him.Police recovered a total of 20 kilos of
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