A 25-year-old “groomed” by a Liverpool gang has been jailed for supplying thousands of pounds worth of heroin and cocaine in Kirkcaldy.
County lines dealer Callum Carr pled guilty to being concerned in the supply of the class A drugs at a property in Dysart’s Cook Street, between July 24 and August 14 last year.
Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court heard he has a total of 32 previous convictions, mostly as a child.
His solicitor said he had been involved in crime since he was 12.
In a scene reminiscent of Charles Dickens novel Oliver Twist, he was “put through a cat flap” to commit burglaries in England.
Supplied drugs to local people
Procurator fiscal depute Alistair McDermid told the court Carr was found sleeping in a bedroom of a scatter flat when police raided it in August last year.
Two other people were found at the address and they were also detained.
A police search uncovered cocaine with a value of between £2,050 and £3,640, and heroin seized was worth between £2,740 and £3,280.
Forensic analysis discovered Carr’s DNA on the knot of two wraps of cocaine and the outside of a mixed wrap of cocaine and heroin.
Mr McDermid said two ticklists were found, one of which contained the names of 35 people and indicated they had been supplied cocaine.
The fiscal depute said there was also a woman who stayed at the property for a period of time.
He said: “She explained that the drugs supply operation at the locus involved the two other individuals living there selling drugs supplied to them by the accused, who had come up from Liverpool.”
This woman had been buying cocaine from the two others and her mobile phone was used by Carr to advertise drugs.
Mobile phones recovered from the property were also examined by cyber-crime officers and found to have a number of messages indicating Carr was concerned in drug supply.
Modern-day Oliver Twist
Carr’s defence lawyer said his client, born and raised in Anfield, Liverpool, had come from a good family – none of whom are involved in crime – and his parents were “loving and supportive,” but that he was a “problem child” from a young age.
He was recruited into a local gang from the age of 12 and was exposed to gang violence.
The solicitor said his client told him he was “put through a cat flap” at a young age in order to facilitate burglaries.
He said Carr has a total of 32 previous convictions, and 26 of those were before he turned 18.
He highlighted a background of being “groomed” from a young age and pointed out he had taken responsibility for his actions by pleading guilty.
He also highlighted Carr has no previous drug supply offences.
The lawyer said one recent positive development for Carr has been getting a new partner, which has provided him with “some motivation” on release to “break the cycle of offending”.
Jailed
Sheriff Alison McKay told Carr: “As far as I am concerned, this is a serious offence involving deliberately coming to Kirkcaldy in order to supply drugs to others”.
The sheriff told Carr his record was “atrocious” for someone of his age, though she accepts he does not have any analogous offending.
Sheriff McKay jailed Carr for 32 months, backdated to August 15 last year when he was first remanded in custody.
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