A man found in possession of drugs and an air rifle while unfit to drive through drink or drugs, after smashing his car near the Royal Tay Yacht Club in July, has been jailed for more than two years.
Ross James Ramsay, 32, of Ballumbie Gardens, Dundee, was sent to prison for 26 months and 80 days by Sheriff Charles Macnair at Dundee Sheriff Court on TUesday after the High Court confirmed the unexpired portion of a previous sentence.
Ramsay had admitted possessing the rifle while not permitted to do so, and also admitted possessing 462 diazepam tablets, with a street value of £462, and heroin worth around £900.
Depute fiscal Donna Brown told the court Ramsay was seen driving erratically at noon on July 28 in West Queen Street and Dundee Road when an incident took place outside the Royal Tay Yacht Club and he was seen to be staggering on the road there.
She said he was also seen to dispose of a plastic bag from his car in nearby bushes.
Ms Brown told the court a search was carried out and the drugs were recovered while the air rifle was found in his high-powered Audi.
At a previous hearing, Sheriff Macnair told Ramsay: “I will remit this to the High Court for consideration of the Section 16 order (release from prison on licence) and sentence in this court will be deferred until after that.”
The sheriff also imposed interim disqualification from driving and the Crown moved an application for forfeiture of the air rifle.
When he returned for sentence Sheriff Macnair imposed a new sentence and returned him to prison for the unexpired portion. He also disqualified him from driving for three years.
Ramsay was released early from his previous jail sentence of three years and nine months, imposed in July 2012, after admitting seriously assaulting Alexander McLennan, of Longtown Place.
Mr McLennan, 56, died after being stabbed through the heart in a street brawl on Kingsway on January 7 that year.
Ramsay and co-accused John Cassidy and Steven Batchelor, both 33, were originally accused of murdering Mr McLennan, who was also punched and kicked in the attack and hit on the head with an iron bar.