Janitor fails to stay out of jail

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 yesterday. Defence solicitor advocate Richard Goddard asked for Glass' bail to be continued as 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.

Advocate depute Shanti Rao said police had received confidential information that Glass was in possession of a large quantity of drugs.

She said more than a kilo and a quarter of the drug was recovered.

The prosecutor said that at the time Glass was at a "low ebb".

"He was asked if he would hold on to this quantity of drugs, as it was put, as a favour," he said.