Inverness prisoner jailed again after drugs found in strip search
A prisoner found with a quantity of cannabis resin and Dihydrocodine tablets concealed internally during a strip search at Inverness prison has been jailed for four months.
Peter Thomson’s solicitor Sathpal Singh asked Sheriff Gordon Fleetwood to consider deferring sentence for criminal justice social work reports.
Thomson (37), formerly of Louisburgh Street in Wick, admitted attempting to bring the drugs into the prison on April 29.
He also appeared on a deferred sentence for possession of a quantity of heroin in Inverness High Street on April 24.
Depute fiscal Ross Carvel said Thomson underwent an intimate internal search at the prison and small quantities of both cannabis and Dihydrocodine were found.
Mr Singh said for the best part of his life Thomson had been a heavy drug user and the Dihydrocodine which was found was a prescribed drug he had received for a blood clot on his leg prior to being sent to Inverness Prison.
"He has been out of prison since August of last year and has remained out of prison since."
Mr Singh said Thomson had been working as a fisherman but sustained an injury to his leg and when he recovered from that injury he hoped to return to the fishing industry.
"He really has tried to get out of his drug habit," said Mr Singh.
But Sheriff Fleetwood told Thomson: "Drugs are a curse in prison" before jailing him.
He admonished him on the charge of possession of heroin.
