Paisley dad jailed for supplying cannabis

A pest controller caught during a £500,000 cannabis raid has been jailed for more than three years.

Thomas Dymond was held after police swooped at an industrial unit in North Street, Paisley last September.

The 46 year-old had agreed to ferry the large haul of drugs despite being a carer for his sick child.

Dymond pled guilty at the High Court in Glasgow to being concerned in the supply of cannabis.

Lord Beckett locked him up for three years and two months.

Prosecutor Shanti Maguire said Dymond, of the city's Thornliebank, had been watched during a police drugs probe.

He was clocked in a hired Ford Transit van later making “several loadings” of boxes at the unit.

Dymond went on to meet another individual. A number of laundry bags were put into this person's car.

Police then made their move and £332,640 of cannabis was found at the unit.

A further £163,000 of the drug was discovered in the bags in the other individual's vehicle.

Mark Moir, defending, said Dymond “deeply regretted his involvement to courier” the illegal consignment.

The advocate added: “He rented the van partly to use for his pest control business.

“But, also in the knowledge that he would be transporting this substantial amount of cannabis.”

Mr Moir added Dymond had been “approached” and offered money to ferry the drugs.

Lord Beckett reduced the jail-term from four and a half years due to the guilty plea