A woman who acted with her twin sister to supply friends and family with cocaine in Dundee has been ordered to hand over almost £6,000 of her ill-gotten gains.
Stacey Millar, 42, has been told to pay £5,942.96 of her personal assets to the Crown following a hearing at the High Court in Edinburgh.
Millar was given a five-year sentence in March for drug dealing.
Stephanie Millar was given a community payback order.
Police raids
The High Court in Livingston heard how police raided addresses in Dundee and found drugs and tens of thousands of pounds in cash linked to the sisters.
Police searched Stephanie Millar’s home on July 30 2020 and recovered 14 wraps of cocaine mixed with phenacetin, which were worth £280.
Sets of scales bearing traces of cocaine and £290 in cash were found.
A second search of the property resulted in police finding cocaine with a maximum street value of £550, scales and four notepads containing figures, calculations and phone numbers.
Officers also searched her sister’s rented flat in Canning Place and found almost 27 grams of cocaine mixed with the pain-relief drug Phenatecin, with a potential value of between £1,400 and £2,670.
Detectives further recovered £5,943 in cash, a set of scales, two “crack pipes” and a knife bearing traces of the drug.
The pair pled guilty to trafficking the Class A drug in the city between August 22 and September 16 2020.
Order made
On Monday, the court heard prosecutors and defence lawyers at a Proceeds of Crime hearing had agreed Stacey Millar had made £16,662.96 from her life of crime but did not have that amount available at this point in time.
Prosecutor Dan Byrne said: “I would ask the court to make an order in the sum of £5,942.96.”
At proceedings earlier this year, the court heard Stacey Millar had a number of previous convictions for drugs offences and faced a minimum term of seven years.
She has four previous convictions for dealing heroin, for which she has served prison sentences totalling six years and eight months.
Defence advocate Allan McLeod urged Lord Lake not to impose the full term, saying his client was involved in “very low level” dealing.
He said she had been subjected to trauma in her childhood and had turned to drugs at the age of 25 in a bid to deal with it.
He added: “When her partner died, that unfortunately led to a spiral of her returning to drugs.
“She’s served a prison sentence where she’s managed to be free of drugs.”
He said Millar, who had undergone numerous courses while in custody, is now intent on working towards her recovery.
Judge Lord Lake sentenced Stephanie Millar to an 18-month community payback order, which includes a compulsory drug treatment requirement and 180 hours of unpaid work.
The mother-of-three had previously only had fines for JP Court offences.
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