An Invergowrie electrician who peddled cocaine for an organised crime gang made more than £80,000 from his secret deals, prosecutors have claimed.
On Friday the Crown told a court that they were seeking to claw back drug money from David Kiddy as part of a Proceeds of Crime action.
Prosecutors allege that Kiddy, who was jailed for a year, made £82,000 from his involvement in cocaine dealing for gangsters.
They are seeking £28,925.33 which is the recoverable sum they claim they can take back from his current financial estate.
Perth Sheriff Court was told on Friday that Kiddy’s legal team required more time for a forensic accountant to report on the claims made by the Crown. The case was continued for a week.
The same court previously heard how the father-of-one started dealing the Class A drug while trying to hide his own habit from his parents.
Prior to being jailed, Kiddy said he was “embarrassed and ashamed” that he had let his family down by turning to drug dealing.
The court was told that Kiddy was caught 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.
Sheriff Gillian Wade told Kiddy, who had no previous convictions: “Your dramatic rise into the world of criminality is inevitably going to result in a custodial sentence.
“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.”
Mr 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.
“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.”
David Kiddy, 27, Main Street, Invergowrie, admitted being concerned in the supply of cocaine in Canal Street, Perth, on 20 July 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 pounds.
Ferrie, 51, had earlier been jailed for 32 months after the same court heard about his role in the organised crime gang’s bid to flood Perth with the Class A drug.
The arthritic drug dealer told the court he joined the gang because he was fed-up waiting for a knee replacement operation on the NHS.
Ferrie claimed he was in pain from arthritis and had been told he would have to wait up to 15 years to have the operation to replace both knees.
He told the court that he tried to dull the pain with alcohol before turning to cocaine and eventually got hooked into an organised crime gang.
Mr Malpass told the court that the haul of cocaine led to further large seizures of drugs around Tayside which were linked to the same gang’s operation.
