Drug offences land ex–paralegal in jail

A FORMER paralegal has been jailed for more than three years after being caught with drugs worth almost £140,000.

Gary Corkindale was arrested after police swooped at a flat in Glasgow’s Bridgeton area in January last year.

Officers seized £122,000 worth of cannabis, £12,990 of amphetamine and £4,000 of cocaine.

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Corkindale, 35, admitted to charges of being concerned in the supply of the drugs when he appeared at the High Court in Glasgow.

Judge Lord Burns told him: “You have been in a privileged position in the past and would have been well aware of the serious nature of these offences.”

Corkindale was jailed for three years and two months.

Co-accused Mark Doleman, 36, admitted being concerned in the supply of amphetamine and having a stun gun. He was jailed for two years and four months.

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