The boss of an Aberdeen food firm has been caught in possession of cocaine worth £700.
Jordan Clarkson, of Premier Meal Prep, was not personally present at Aberdeen Sheriff Court when the case called against him.
But the 27-year-old, whose family owns and runs a number of city pubs and restaurants including Soul, The Draft Project and Vovem, entered a guilty plea through solicitor Paul Barnett.
Clarkson admitted being in possession of cocaine at his address on Queens Road in Aberdeen on December 21, 2021.
The Crown also accepted a not guilty plea in relation to a second charge of possession of cannabis.
Fiscal depute Kiril Bonavino told the court a total of 16.3g of cocaine was found, worth £700.
Sheriff Morag McLaughlin deferred sentence on Clarkson, of Queens Road, Aberdeen, until later this month for reports and for him to be personally present.
The incident occurred just days before Clarkson put on a three-course festive meal at So on Union Street for people experiencing homelessness and those who were spending the day alone.
It comes after Clarkson’s brother, Paul, was himself jailed last year for dealing cocaine.
The 42-year-old pub operations director was arrested after police received intelligence he was in possession of cocaine at the Draft Project on Langstane Place in Aberdeen.
Officers searched Paul Clarkson as he left the venue at 9.33pm and found class-A drugs worth £1,630, self-seal bags and a mobile phone full of incriminating text messages.
Press coverage of that case quickly appeared online and was shared and commented on widely.
This sparked an angry reaction from Jordan, who took to informing some of those who engaged in the conversation that they were banned from all the family’s venues.
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