Mother avoids jail over £20,000 heroin stash

A mother who used her son’s money to buy heroin has escaped a prison term, despite acting as a safe house to store nearly £20,000 of the drug.

Tracy Gray, 40, was given a large stash of heroin to watch by neighbour Michael Philbin, who has since been jailed for four-and-a-half years.

Sheriff Lindsay Foulis told Gray: “Clearly there was a significant value to the heroin you were holding.

“However, it seems clear you were acting as a store for another.”

Gray, of Strathtay Road, Perth, admitted supplying heroin and was ordered to carry out 250 hours unpaid work.