A drug dealer is back behind bars after admitting his role in a botched, four-figure crack cocaine operation.
Colin Samson-Hammond, 56, was snared by DNA evidence after police seized drugs and paraphernalia from temporary accommodation on Dundee’s Honeygreen Road.
In April, Bradley Luck, 49, was jailed after travelling from Suffolk to peddle £4,000 worth of crack cocaine with 40-year-old Elizabeth Wilson, who was spared a prison stint.
On the day he was due to stand trial, Samson-Hammond, of St Columba Gardens, pled guilty to being concerned in the supply of Class A drugs on January 25 2024.
Dundee Sheriff Court heard how Samson-Hammond was jailed for 30 months in 2000 for drug dealing offences and had continually racked up criminal convictions in subsequent years.
Solicitor Lyndsey Barber said: “At the time of the offence, he was in a crippling situation with drugs.
“He was clearly around people he ought not to have been around.
“He was spending any money he had on drugs and found himself in a situation that was extremely stupid.”
The lawyer asked Sheriff Alastair Carmichael to continue Samson-Hammond’s bail for a social work report to be obtained.
The sheriff, however, saw no point and jailed Samson-Hammond for 30 months while highlighting the “misery” and “blight” caused by the drugs scene.
He said: “It’s obvious you have deliberately continued to deal in drugs despite having received that custodial sentence and you obviously have no genuine desire to change your ways.”
Controlling cells boss convicted
A “controlling” Dundee cells boss who bombarded his ex with love messages and phone calls during a 30-month campaign of domestic abuse has lost his job.
James Barr, who worked for GEOAmey managing cells at courts in Tayside and Angus, was found guilty of an offence under the Domestic Abuse (Scotland) Act following an earlier trial at Dunfermline Sheriff Court.
He was ordered to carry out unpaid work when he returned to court for sentencing.
Attacker pinned victim to car seat
A Dunfermline man has admitted injuring a rival and pinning another man to his car seat.
Ahead of a jury trial scheduled at Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court, Kyle Fleming, 29, pled guilty to three charges.
He admitted acting in a threatening or abusive manner on September 23 last year near his home on Clunie Road.
Fleming repeatedly shouted and swore, repeatedly headbutted a door and punched the window of a car, breaking it.
While on bail, he also made offensive remarks to a female there.
Further, Fleming pled guilty to assaulting a man by grabbing him by the T-shirt and pinning him to his car seat.
He also pled guilty to assaulting a second male by repeatedly making violent threats, threatening to kill him, repeatedly punching him on the head knocking him to the ground and causing him to strike his head on the ground.
Fleming then seized the male by the throat, restricting his breathing.
The male was left injured and throughout the attack, Fleming was in possession of a “sharp implement.”
Sheriff James Williamson ordered background reports and deferred sentencing until July 15.
Fighter caged for raping women
A Perth mixed martial arts fighter has been convicted of raping two women.
Octavian Moasea, 32, preyed on his victims at locations in Glenrothes and Glasgow between November 2020 and January 2022.
The High Court in Edinburgh heard how Moasea told one of the women that he had taken part in MMA bouts – and she told jurors of how she was scared of him because of his background as a fighter.
Moasea was remanded in custody ahead of sentencing next month.
Wild chase teen’s catalogue of crimes
A teenager’s catalogue of crimes saw him break a man’s jaw in an unprovoked attack and lead police on a wild chase in Dundee.
Kaydon McColl also attacked a man during a bus journey and spit at a woman while trying to get into her home.
The 19-year-old was spared a period of detention having previously been remanded in custody.
The man who was attacked on a bus journey between Lochee Road and Nethergate told The Courier he had been left with a permanent scar and trouble eating after being repeatedly struck on the head on April 20.
Dundee Sheriff Court was told how McColl assaulted another stranger on Ward Road in September 2023.
Fiscal depute Ewan Chalmers said: “The complainer had been on a night out. The accused confronted him and carried out an unprovoked assault on him.
“The complainer had a mandible fracture and required surgery with two plates inserted in his jaw.”
Another stranger was listening to music when he was kicked on the back and punched by McColl, of Pitkerro Road, on Yeaman’s Lane on April 15 last year.
On the same street, McColl tried to force his way into a woman’s house on June 24 before striking her on the head and trying to spit on her.
McColl would later embark on a dangerous joyride in a stolen car last December before smashing into a wall, a lamp post and a police car.
He was over the drink-drive limit and caught with cocaine during the incident before being taken to Ninewells Hospital after refusing to spit out something he was concealing in his mouth.
The lout erupted at staff and was heard to say: “I’m going to f*****g kill you.”
McColl was sentenced following the preparation of social work reports. He had been subject to a structured deferred sentence.
Sheriff John Rafferty said: “If you end up in jail for these matters it’s going to be for a lengthy period.
“You have engaged, to a degree, and you have just persuaded me to give you a chance.
“If you blow it and I sentence you for an unprovoked attack on someone where you break their jaw, to put it colloquially, I will not miss you.”
McColl was placed on supervision for two years, ordered to complete the Venture Trust programme and disqualified from driving for a total of three years as an alternative to custody.
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