Man caught with £2.5m of cocaine in car boot after police chase

A antheral who was caught with astir £2.5m worthy of cocaine successful the footwear of his car pursuing a high-speed constabulary pursuit has been jailed for 5 years.

Dylan Nicol, 24, drove astatine speeds up to 120mph on the A90 and Kingsway West successful Dundee successful February arsenic helium attempted to evade arrest.

The Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) said Nicol's Volkswagen Golf was yet surrounded by officers erstwhile it came to a halt aft its tyres were punctured by a constabulary "stinger" device.

A cardboard container with 13 packages of cocaine was recovered from the boot.

COPFS said the drugs had an mean purity of 79%.

Detective Inspector Julia Ogilvie said Nicol "knew the consequences of his actions" but inactive continued to beryllium progressive successful the proviso of drugs.

The Police Scotland serviceman added: "His actions that time were unsafe but the imaginable implications of those drugs making it into our communities could person had an adjacent much devastating impact."

COFPS said constabulary had been trailing Nicol's car arsenic it headed eastbound connected the A90 from Perth to Dundee astatine 70mph implicit suspicions the conveyance contained a quantity of drugs.

At the aforesaid time, different officers deployed a "stinger" conscionable earlier the Swallow roundabout successful Dundee, wherever the A90 becomes Kingsway West, successful an effort to effort and halt him.

Meanwhile, portion adjacent Longforgan, officers successful 3 marked vehicles surrounded Nicol's car and activated their bluish lights, signalling for him to stop.

Instead, Nicol accelerated up to speeds of 120mph and was seen swerving successful and retired of postulation earlier hitting the stinger, which punctured his tyres.

He carried connected astatine 80mph and drove done a reddish airy earlier officers were capable to situation him erstwhile the car came to a halt and arrested him arsenic helium attempted to flee.

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Nicol pleaded blameworthy to unsafe driving and a abstracted complaint of being acrophobic successful the proviso of cocaine astatine the High Court successful Edinburgh past month.

He was sentenced to 5 years down bars astatine the High Court successful Inverness connected Friday.

Nicol, of Dundee, volition besides beryllium made taxable to confiscation proceedings nether proceeds of transgression legislation.

Moira Orr, caput of large transgression for COPFS, said: "This was a highly palmy prosecution which has removed a ample quantity of drugs from our streets and caused important disruption to the section proviso chain.

"Dylan Nicol volition present walk clip successful situation paying for his crimes acknowledgment to an extended constabulary operation, moving with COPFS, to analyse and disrupt a web of cause supply."