Get the latest Scottish crime and courts news sent straight to your inbox with our daily Criminal Record newsletter A drug dealer was busted after thousands of pounds of crack cocaine was found at a historic castle ruin.
Anthony Savin's DNA was found on the class A drug after it was discovered by a volunteer who was picking up litter at Kerelaw Castle, in Stevenston, Ayrshire.
The 30-year-old was in jail over a previous drug offence at the time. He tried to claim that the consignment had been there for four years.He said it was from when he helped dealers to package the drug to fund his own habit.
Savin, of Darvel, Ayrshire, appeared in the dock at Kilmarnock Sheriff Court yesterday to be sentenced, having earlier pleaded guilty to a drug
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