A heartless Perth woman has admitted stealing a necklace from a dead teenager.
Aaron Harvey died in a Perth flat after consuming a cocktail of heroin, Valium and vodka on Hogmanay 2008.
At Perth Sheriff Court Stacey Ramage pleaded guilty to stealing his necklace while detectives investigated the circumstances surrounding his death.
The 24-year-old, of Viewfield Place, Perth, admitted stealing the chain on December 31, 2008.
The charge stated that the necklace belonging to Mr Harvey, formerly of Ballinluig, had been left in Ramage’s possession by police who were investigating his death but that she then stole it.
She also faced charges alleging that she supplied Mr Harvey with narcotics including the deadly class A substance heroin.
Ramage pleaded not guilty and the Crown accepted this plea.
She was fined £300 for the theft of the necklace on Thursday.Tragic deathAaron Harvey’s grief-stricken father previously told how his son died just three weeks after first trying heroin.
He said the frightening speed at which the former Pitlochry High pupil became hooked should serve as a lesson to others.
“I want to get the message out to the community that while drugs are not acceptable in any form, if you mix them it is a sure way to get yourself killed,” Mr Harvey said.
“Aaron smoked heroin, ate valium and drank vodka and it killed him.
“I have lost a son and I cannot bear to see someone else losing one through the same thing.Message”The combinations of drugs kids are taking is frightening and it can only lead to more deaths.
“If I can prevent even one further death by making this public then it will be worth it.”
Mr Harvey admits his son was troubled since leaving school at 16 and said he found it difficult to get a job.
But he insisted he was turning his life around until he was persuaded to try harder drugs.
“He had had a lot of difficulties but was in the process of squaring that and getting himself sorted out,” Mr Harvey continued.
“However, he met someone in Perth who supplied him with heroin and three weeks later he was dead.”