Lanarkshire man caught with safe containing £10k of heroin during drugs raid

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A sheriff has slammed a drug user who claimed police raided his home on the very day he was ordered to look after a safe containing heroin worth £10,000.Graeme McMullen, 51, insisted he was beaten and received death threats by angry dealers after the illicit stash was seized.But Sheriff John Hamilton said McMullen was "taking the court for a fool" and it was more likely he was a drug dealer himself.McMullen still avoided a prison sentence when at Hamilton Sheriff Court this week.The Lanarkshire Live app is available to download now.

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They also recovered a bag that contained 34 individual 3.5g wraps of the drug.Ms Clark told the court: "Scales with traces of heroin and more polythene bags were also found."The accused told police officers someone had dropped off the heroin for him to look after."He agreed to do this because he had built up a drug debt."Defence agent Gavin Lawson said the people who had given McMullen the heroin were "not best pleased" when they found out the police had seized it.Mr Lawson stated: "My client received death threats, so much so that he had to