Drug Trafficker Caught with £32,000 Worth of Cocaine Sentenced to Five Years in prison

A drug trafficker who was caught with £32,000 worth of cocaine on the streets following a police raid, has been sentenced to prison for five years and three months.

Peter Walters had been placed under surveillance in Aberdeen as a result of information received by police. Walters was found in Skene House, in the city's Whitehall Place, on October 11, 2013, wearing a pair of rubber gloves and standing in front of a table containing a quantity of cocaine and the bulking agent benzocaine.

Officers also found a spoon, knife, digital scales, cut plastic bags, a measuring jug and glass on the table. £1700 in cash was found on another table along with ten bags of cocaine.

Advocate depute, Alex Prentice QC said:

"These items are all consistent with the preparation and division of cocaine into smaller amounts for sale. If sold in one gram deals the cocaine seized would have a potential street value of £32,100."

The judge in the case, Lord Turnbull told Walters that he would have faced a seven-year prison sentence, but for his earlier guilty plea. Lord Turnbull went on to outline the devastating effect drugs have on society, family relationships and to drug users themselves. He said;

"Those who supply these drugs turn their back on all of this and only look to the massive financial gains which they expect to make through their illegal conduct,"

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