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Fife drug dealer caught with heroin three times in just eight months

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Greechan was sentenced at the High Court in Edinburgh

A Fife drug dealer was jailed for more than five years after he was caught with heroin three times within a year.

Paul Greechan, 48, was previously imprisoned twice for trafficking in Class A drugs before his latest arrests.

A judge told Greechan at the High Court in Edinburgh: “It is clear that you have been dealing in drugs to generate a not insignificant amount of cash.”

Lord Weir said Greechan faced a seven-year jail sentence because of his drug trafficking record but the sentence would be reduced to five years and 219 days imprisonment because of his guilty plea.

Unemployed Greechan admitted being concerned in the supply of heroin at a house in South Street, Cowdenbeath, a room he occupied at the James Bank Hostel, James Street, Dunfermline and an address in Craigmyle Street, Dunfermline, between May 8 last year and January 10.

Drug addict for nearly 20 years

Advocate depute Alan Cameron said Greechan’s criminal record included offences of dishonesty and violence and a significant number of convictions for drugs.

Defence solicitor advocate Gordon Martin said Greechan did not start to take to heroin until his 30th birthday and was last released from prison in 2017.

Mr Martin said: “On his release from his last sentence, although drug free, he was returned to the same environment he had been in prior to incarceration, the same friends, same places to visit and hang out and it therefor became difficult for him to avoid drugs and he began to consume them again.”

Greechan ran up a drug debt and began selling to friends and acquaintances to feed his own habit, said the defence lawyer.

The latest offence involved three separate incidents during which he was found in possession of heroin.

Mr Cameron said each time the amount of the drug involved “was excessive for personal use and indicative of involvement in the supplying of that drug”.

Three drugs discoveries

On May 8 last year police armed with a warrant searched a flat in South Street, Cowdenbeath and found Greechan in the property with others.

He was in possession of £285 and a bag containing 38 grams of heroin worth up £1925 on the streets.

Greechan was arrested on June 5 last year when he was a resident at the hostel in Dunfermline on an unconnected matter.

Following his arrest a member of staff found a bag containing heroin down the side of a chair in his room.

Police were contacted and a search of the room revealed £461 in cash, three sets of scales and a bag containing 93 grams of heroin worth up to £4650.

On January 10, police searched a flat in Craigmyle Street, in Dunfermline, where they found Greechan was present.

Under a mattress in the bedroom they found his wallet, containing £605, a set of scales and a further quantity of heroin with a potential value of £1800.

Greechan was not interviewed after his three arrests as each time he refused to leave a cell at Dunfermline police station.


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