A 21-year-old Liverpool man who tried to escape from police after an Inverness house was raided in a drugs surveillance operation was jailed for 18 months yesterday.
Inverness Sheriff Court was told previously that after a three-minute chase through the Merkinch area of the city, officers managed to capture Cory Gibson, of Wellington Avenue, Merseyside.
Fiscal depute Roderick Urquhart told Sheriff Gordon Fleetwood that Gibson had jumped out of a window of a house in Nelson Street when police exercised a search warrant.
He then vaulted over fences and walls in his bid to avoid arrest, throwing away bags of wraps, Mr Urquhart added.
When he was detained, police also found a shoulder bag containing £92 in cash and more wraps.
In total, cocaine and heroin worth up to £6,600 was recovered.
Sentence had been deferred for a background report and Gibson was remanded in custody on January 19.
Yesterday, Sheriff Fleetwood, who was told Gibson had a previous conviction for growing cannabis, backdated the sentence to that date.
Defence solicitor Ken Ferguson said: “This was a familiar situation where a person runs up a debt to his dealer and is pressurised into doing work for him.
“There were threats which were taken seriously by my client. He is hoping to make a fresh start on his release from prison.”