Notorious Scots drug kingpin's return to crime ‘spectacularly backfires' after £750 ‘white powder' cocktail plot foiled
BACK BEHIND BARS Notorious Scots drug kingpin's return to crime 'spectacularly backfires' after £750 'white powder' cocktail plot foiled
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A FORMER kingpin gave a thumbs up as he was jailed for a drugs-linked 'white powder' rap.
Roy Dunstance, 49, smiled at a woman in court after being handed a sentence of three years, four months.
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Glasgow's High Court heard the shipment had a potential value of £750,000
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He'd admitted involvement in serious organised crime over a bid to bring in 54kg of a paracetamol substance from China.
Glasgow's High Court heard it had a potential value of £750,000 as it could be mixed with caffeine to bulk out heroin deals.
The shipment was addressed to Dunstance in Lochgilphead, Argyll, where he'd lived since being freed early from prison in 2022.
He'd been caged for 11 years in 2015 for running a heroin trafficking operation from Spain.
Cops seized £8million of the drug plus weapons in raids across Scotland.
Defence lawyer John Scullion KC said the latest crime committed by Dunstance was 'a desperate attempt, at a lower level, to make money, which spectacularly backfired'.
The package, addressed to him, was intercepted last September at Heathrow Airport.
When cops raided his flat they found a blender, scales, clear bags and notes on 'legal highs' and 'commercial drones'.
The case in 2015 heard how Dunstance's mob had been in the 'top 5%' of crime gangs in the country at that time.
He was snared as part of the large-scale Operation Brora police probe.
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Detectives had managed to hack into messages which showed how Dunstance was directing crew members from his home in Spain.
He was later extradited from the Netherlands to face justice.
David Hawthorne - one of his trusted lieutenants - was separately jailed for nine years in 2014 for his role in manning safe houses for drugs and firearms in Drumchapel, Glasgow.
Dunstance was also an associate of Euan 'EJ' Johnston, gunned down in a gangland killing in the city in 2016.
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