40 months for work van drug courier

A DRUG courier who was caught using his work van to ferry a consignment of cocaine worth nearly £60,000 on the streets was yesterday jailed for 40 months.

A judge was told that David Miller, 30, "succumbed to temptation" after he and his fiancee had planned a quite expensive wedding and he was left struggling.

Police spotted Miller driving a white van on the M8 as he headed for Coatbridge, in Lanarkshire. After he returned to West Lothian they moved in and detained him at Stonebank, in Livingston.

Nearly one and a half kilos of the Class A drug were found in a carrier bag in the van worth up to 59,400 on the streets.

Miller, of Fells Rigg, in Livingston, earlier admitted being concerned in the supply of cocaine on 2 April this year at Stonebank in the Ladywell area of Livingston.

He told police he had travelled to Coatbridge in the van to collect a package for someone whom he declined to name.

Defence solicitor advocate Ewen Roy said Miller "bitterly regrets" it.

Lord Doherty told Miller: "The distribution of drugs depends upon persons such as you to act as couriers."

The judge told him he would have faced a five-year jail sentence, but for his early plea of guilty.