Janitor to be locked up after £70,000 cocaine find

A JANITOR who was caught providing a safe house for cocaine worth almost £70,000 on the streets failed in a bid to stay out of jail for the festive season.

Robert Glass, 39, admitted being concerned in the supply of the Class A drug on April 16 at a flat at West Port, Dunbar, in East Lothian, when he appeared at the High Court in Edinburgh today.

Temporary judge Michael O'Grady QC said he would have to obtain a background before sentencing father-of-three Glass next month.

Defence solicitor advocate Richard Goddard asked for Glass' bail to be continued and said it would "allow him, at this time of year, to have two or three weeks with his family pending disposal of the case."

He added: "I do so in full appreciation that ultimately a custodial sentence is something of an inevitability."

But the judge remanded East Lothian Council janitor Glass in custody ahead of sentencing in the case.

Advocate depute Shanti Rao said police had received confidential information that Glass was in possession of a large quantity of drugs at the address in Dunbar where he was living at the time.

She said a search found cocaine under flooring in the bathroom, with further quantities in a bedroom and in a trainer in the living room.

More than a kilo and a quarter of the drug was recovered.

The prosecutor said that if sold as gram deals it could be worth between 55,600 and 69,500.

Mr Goddard said Glass, of Lamington Road, Gladsmuir, in East Lothian, had agreed to hold the drugs at the flat where he was living at the time.

He said that at the time Glass was at a "low ebb". "He was asked if he would hold onto this quantity of drugs, as it was put, as a favour," he said.