A Tayside electrician who peddled cocaine for an organised crime gang has agreed to surrender nearly £35,000.
Prosecutors launched a Proceeds of Crime action against David Kiddy after he admitted his role in the local drugs trade.
The 29-year-old, who was jailed for a year in 2020, was thought to have made around £80,000 from his illicit deals.
At Perth Sheriff Court on Thursday, agents for Kiddy signed off an agreement to pay the Crown a total of £34,677 and 86 pence.
The recoverable sum was calculated by lawyers and prosecutors from Kiddy’s current financial estate.
‘Embarrassed and ashamed’
The same court had previously heard how the father-of-one started dealing the Class A drug while trying to hide his own habit from his parents.
Before being jailed, Kiddy said he was “embarrassed and ashamed” he had let his family down by turning to drug dealing.
Kiddy, who stayed at Main Street, Invergowrie, was snared during a surveillance operation which led to another man, Morris Ferrie, being jailed for 32 months.
Kiddy was caught during a drugs exchange with Ferrie and his DNA was found on the packaging around the cocaine.
First time offender
Sheriff Gillian Wade told Kiddy, who had no previous convictions: “There was much to be said to your credit up to this point but for an offence of this magnitude – where serious organised crime is involved – it has to attract a custodial sentence.”
Kiddy’s solicitor David Holmes said: “He had accumulated a debt, having taken cocaine.
“Instead of seeking help for that from his parents he felt embarrassed and did not want it known the position he was in.”
Mr Holmes said: “He was given this as an option of writing off the debt.
“He initially refused but then agreed.
“He made a statement that his family did not deserve what he brought upon them.
“He has written to his mother from prison to apologise and promise he will never be in court again.
“His parents did not anticipate he would ever bring this sort of trouble on himself.”
Surveillance on Canal Street
Kiddy admitted being concerned in the supply of cocaine in Canal Street, Perth, on July 20, 2018.
Fiscal depute John Malpass said: “A surveillance operation was authorised and Mr Ferrie was observed as a passenger in a vehicle driven by Mr Kiddy and it was suspected a drug transaction was taking place.”
Mr Malpass said the bag contained nearly quarter of a kilo of cocaine with a potential street value of £24,900.
