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Scots ex-soldier caught driving van with £1m heroin haul on M74 jailed

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An ex-soldier who survived a high-profile helicopter crash has been jailed for six years after police seized a £1m heroin haul.

Gary Cowan, 32, was caught driving back to Scotland on the M74 near Lesmahagow, Lanarkshire in June 2020. He was in a van belonging to garage boss John Craig, 31, who was jailed for eight years after he helped organise the drug trafficking.

Both were today sentenced at the High Court in Glasgow. They had been convicted in April of being concerned in the supply of heroin.

Both had effectively blamed each other. Cowan's lawyer told the court the ex-Royal Regiment of Scotland soldier continues to suffer the "trauma" of an Army helicopter accident in Catterick Garrison, Yorkshire in 2007 in which a close friend was killed.

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